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  1. The week in finance: Miners to deliver record trade surplus

    After a couple of years of falling earnings, corporate Australia looks set to finally deliver some growth in the February results season.

  2. Morrison rejects fresh calls to curb negative gearing

    Treasurer Scott Morrison brushes off calls from within the Coalition for the Government to consider curbing negative gearing in order to control the growth of house prices in capital cities.

  3. Mexico and US won't talk publicly about wall payment

    US President Donald Trump and his Mexican counterpart take part in a "friendly" call and agree not to talk publicly about payment of the controversial border wall.

  4. Bankrupt Tinkler loses bid to travel to US this weekend for job interview

    Former mining magnate Nathan Tinkler will not be able to board a flight to the US this weekend, after a judge ruled his travel deadlines were not genuine.

  5. Pizza Hut delivery drivers underpaid, Fair Work audit finds

    A Fair Work Ombudsman audit of 34 Pizza Hut franchisees finds the majority are failing to comply with workplace laws, with many drivers not being paid the correct minimum hourly rate.

  6. Former LJ Hooker agents charged over misappropriating customers' money

    Real estate giant LJ Hooker says it is pleased two of its former agents will face court for allegedly misappropriating more than $2 million of customers' money.

  7. Ex-Billabong boss jailed for defrauding millions from bank

    Former Billabong chief executive Matthew Perrin is sentenced to eight years in jail for fraud over the forging of his then-wife's signature to access more than $13 million from the Commonwealth Bank.

Features

  1. Dairy goes sour

    Dairy companies forecasted a milk exporting bonanza. But as the industry soured, many failed to deliver on their promises.

  2. Retail workers' farewell

    Myer employees in Orange are shutting up the shop.

  3. Stuck in the middle

    TPP negotiations are pushing Australia towards being the meat in the sandwich of a potential future US-China confrontation.

  4. Financial fitness plan

    There are some relatively simple things you can do to help start saving for the things you really want in life.

  5. Markets Trumped

    You can be sure that when vast amounts of money move in a particular direction ... somewhere, somehow, a powerful person, or group of powerful people, have made an important decision about something.

  6. China's questionable data

    To the absolute surprise of no one, Chinese economic growth came in at an annualised growth rate of 6.7 per cent in 2016.

ASX Quotes

Table showing ASX index quotes for today (as of Fri Jan 27 2017 16:11:00 GMT+1100 (AEDT))
Index Opening Closing Change
5726.00 5765.60 0.7%
5671.50 5714.00 0.7%
2074.30 2086.60 0.6%
9256.50 9323.30 0.7%
6437.10 6520.60 1.3%
20960.30 21019.30 0.3%
819.20 822.90 0.5%
10497.50 10438.60 -0.6%
5008.50 5014.40 0.1%
8806.90 8943.90 1.6%
1778.70 1790.90 0.7%
7914.20 8000.40 1.1%
2369.70 2373.10 0.1%

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