Business Day

Woolworths' comparable sales surged by 3.1 per cent in the second quarter.

Woolworths shopping around for the family spend

RETAIL
Catie Low

Sales of 'still beverages', which includes water, energy drinks and dairy drinks, grew 3.1 per cent.

Water fight declared as Coca-Cola Amatil under pressure on price

RETAIL
Patrick Hatch

PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 07: Accessories bag detail on the runway at the Louis Vuitton Spring Summer 2016 fashion show ...

Australia leads the world when it comes to millionaire immigrants

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

Woodside Petroleum's net profit was up sharply on the performance in 2015 and broadly in line with analyst forecasts.

Woodside eyes lift to gas processing to feed growth ambitions

BUSINESS
Brian Robins

Stockland townhouses at Willowdale, Sydney.

Retail rout isn't stifling Stockland

PROPERTY
Carolyn Cummins

Trump has made it clear he intends to use public browbeating and threats to get companies to keep jobs in the US.

Unskilled and unable: Trump's great jobs lie

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Pandora was a hit this Christmas.

The bright spots of Australian retail

RETAIL
Madeleine Heffernan

Market Indices

Updated: February 22, 2017 - 3:37PM

Updated: February 22, 2017 - 6:08PM

Updated: February 23, 2017 - 4:14AM

Updated: February 23, 2017 - 3:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7691

Percentage up/down

0.20% rise
Euro

Price

0.7295

Percentage up/down

0.08% rise
British Pound

Price

0.6186

Percentage up/down

0.47% rise

Updated: February 23, 2017 - 4:00AM

PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 07: Accessories bag detail on the runway at the Louis Vuitton Spring Summer 2016 fashion show ...

Australia leads the world when it comes to millionaire immigrants

Colin Kruger, CBD

Trump has made it clear he intends to use public browbeating and threats to get companies to keep jobs in the US.

Unskilled and unable: Trump's great jobs lie

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Big W is now barely profitable with earnings falling around 89 per cent in the first half of the 2017 financial year.

Big W's ugly result spoils Woolies' big day

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Boris Trajkov has been charged with cultivating a commercial quantity of cannabis.

Pot stocks rocket higher

Jessica Sier

The Australian dairy sector was plunged into crisis last year after Murray Goulburn and Fonterra slashed farmgate prices.

Bega tips higher farmgate milk prices

The price of copper may rise to $US8000 a tonne by the end of the decade, Citi analysts believe.

Copper fever could heat up Australian miners

Myriam Robin

The benchmark index added 0.2 per cent in broad-based gains while the broader All Ordinaries index rose 0.3 per cent.

Surge in Woolies leads ASX higher

Myriam Robin

Markets Live: Investors cheer Woolies

Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer

Big appetite for bonds in record $11b sale

Benjamin Purvis

8@eight: Wall St records set up ASX

Sponsored

Caltex pumps up retail to head off loss from Woolies fuel supply

Brian Robins

IAG benefited from the Trump rally, which helped boost its investment income.

Trump rally helps limit IAG's profit decline

James Kessel, 46, had his insurance claim rejected by CommInsure after he had a heart attack.

After a string of scandals, the insurance industry has a long way to go

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Staff have reported instances where they have been warned not to report unethical behaviour.

Bank staff pressured to act 'unethically' says union

Georgia Wilkins

The average credit card balance is just under $3150, according to the finder.com.au poll.

Credit card panic starts at $4113

Australia's No. 2 bank by market value said stressed exposures as a percentage of total loans fell by 5 basis points to ...

Westpac assets less stressed as dairy, oil, metals prices improve

Childcare workers were allegedly underpaid $13,000 in wages and entitlements.

Childcare provider embroiled in new wage theft case

Nick Toscano

The CBA is facing claims it owes millions of dollars.

CBA faces claim thousands of workers are owed million in super

Anna Patty

PepsiCo is boosting paid parental leave from 12 to 16 weeks.

Government may take fizz out of PepsiCo's generosity

Anna Patty

Adani's $16.5 billion Carmichael mine needs to be re-assessed by federal government.

The coal war: Inside the fight to build Australia's biggest coal mine

INVESTIGATION

Don Meij admitted that up to 2400 employees may have been underpaid.

Domino's scandal: franchisee selling visas

Adele Ferguson

Domino's

The Domino's effect: the unappetising truth behind your $5 pizza

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION

Prices in the five largest cities increased by 7.8 cents per litre to 122 cents per litre.

What you can do to help push down petrol prices

Esther Han

Decrease: Restaurant no-shows have dropped significantly in the past year.

How 38,000 Australians ended up on a restaurant booking blacklist

Lucy Cormack

Snappr co-founder and graduate doctor Matt Schiller one day hopes to combine his "two loves", medicine and start-ups.

How Matt turned a coffee meeting in Sydney into a Silicon Valley winner

Kim Arlington

Sales of 'still beverages', which includes water, energy drinks and dairy drinks, grew 3.1 per cent.

Water fight declared as Coca-Cola Amatil under pressure on price

Patrick Hatch

Woolworths' comparable sales surged by 3.1 per cent in the second quarter.

Woolworths goes after the family spend

Catie Low

Big W is now barely profitable with earnings falling around 89 per cent in the first half of the 2017 financial year.

Big W's ugly result spoils Woolies' big day

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Woolworths

Woolworths breaks 7.5-year losing streak

Catie Low

Coca-Cola Amatil will close its South Australian plant in 2019.

Coca-Cola Amatil to close plant, cut 180 jobs

Patrick Hatch

RBA governor Phil Lowe is unhappy with the prospect of continued low wages growth.

It's what they wanted, but it hurts

COMMENT
Peter Martin
4 mins ago

Private-sector wage growth has posted a record low for the second consecutive quarter.

RBA's hands tied as wage growth hits new record low

Peter Martin

"It is difficult to quantify this risk, but it is one that is difficult to ignore.": RBA governor Phil Lowe says high ...

'Difficult to ignore': RBA concerned about high household debt

The RBA noted growth in China, Australia's biggest trading partner, had picked up in mid-2016 in response to ...

RBA sees rising resource exports, waning drag from mine-boom end

Michael Heath

Illustration: Matt Davidson

Forget what you've heard about coal. Electricity prices are going up regardless

COMMENT
Peter Martin

NSW had a near miss earlier this month as heatwave conditions strained the state's electricity supplies.

Victorian cities faced power cuts to ensure NSW made it through heatwave

EXCLUSIVE
Peter Hannam

Woodside Petroleum's net profit was up sharply on the performance in 2015 and broadly in line with analyst forecasts.

Woodside eyes lift to gas processing to feed growth ambitions

Brian Robins

Trump has made it clear he intends to use public browbeating and threats to get companies to keep jobs in the US.

Unskilled and unable: Trump's great jobs lie

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates speaks during a plenary session at the 47th annual meeting of ...

Who are the richest of the rich?

Paul Sullivan

Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault.

Where the world’s wealthiest invest their billions

Paul Sullivan

The new Ferrari 812 Superfast is claimed to be the company's fastest car yet.

Ferrari announces its 'fastest model ever' ... but is it?

Luxury Cars

Use your points strategically to maximise their benefits.

The best (and worst) ways to spend your frequent flyer points

High Flyer

Data is the new currency.

The science of money: how data affects your financial life

Paul Wallbank

The sharemarket doesn't exist to let you invest, but so companies can raise capital.

The problem with broker research

Marcus Padley

More support is needed for entrepreneurship such as the Hatchery program, which runs entrepreneur boot camps.

Why we need to get behind entrepreneurs

Tony Featherstone

James Roemermann runs online nursery Australian Plants Online.

Plants in the post a growing business

Kate Jones