Michael Janda is the ABC's senior digital business reporter, and has been covering business for ABC News Online since 2009. He was the ABC's first Business and Finance Cadet in 2008, and has since worked reporting finance and economics across online, radio and TV. You can follow Michael on Twitter: @mikejanda
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| UpdatedSunday workers are not only employees, they're also customers. So what effect do you think stripping thousands of dollars from their pay will have on already fragile consumer spending?
Topics: economic-trends, work, australia
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| UpdatedCrown Resorts reports a fall in underlying revenue amid a slump in VIP gamblers at its Australian casinos.
Topics: company-news, gambling, australia, macao
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| UpdatedQantas posts a 25 per cent profit slide, amid competitive pressures and ongoing redundancy payments as part of its "transformation program".
Topics: air-transport, company-news, australia
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| UpdatedFairfax almost trebles its profit, posting net earnings of $83.7 million, while also confirming that it is investigating the spin-off of its real estate business Domain.
Topics: media, company-news, australia
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| UpdatedWoolworths bounces back from a massive loss, driven by its failed Masters hardware experiment, to post a $725 million first-half profit.
Topics: retail, company-news, australia
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| UpdatedFears of inflating housing bubbles in Sydney and Melbourne are stopping the Reserve Bank from cutting interest rates to boost the economy, the central bank governor conceded today.
Topics: money-and-monetary-policy, economic-trends, australia
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Media giant Fairfax enters a trading halt pending an announcement about the future of its highly profitable real estate advertising business, Domain.
Topics: media, housing-industry, australia
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| UpdatedThe housing affordability debate is increasingly becoming the home of dangerous ideas that would do little to help first home buyers and much to destroy the Australian economy, writes Michael Janda.
Topics: housing-industry, consumer-finance, economic-trends, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia's unemployment rate falls slightly to 5.7 per cent, as a surge in part-time jobs offsets a slump in full-time work.
Topics: economic-trends, unemployment, australia
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| UpdatedBankwest confirms that property investors are no longer able to include the tax benefits of negative gearing when applying for a home loan from the institution.
Topics: consumer-finance, banking, housing-industry, australia
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It is highly unlikely that Australia's economy entered a recession over the second half of last year, the Reserve Bank concludes in its latest economic update.
Topics: money-and-monetary-policy, economic-trends, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedThe Reserve Bank leaves official interest rates on hold at 1.5 per cent for the sixth straight month.
Topics: money-and-monetary-policy, economic-trends, australia
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| UpdatedDonald Trump makes financial deregulation an early priority of his presidency, but what does the Dodd-Frank Act do and what changes are likely to happen to US banking?
Topics: banking, regulation, consumer-protection, consumer-finance, donald-trump, government-and-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedNational Australia Bank reports a 1 per cent fall in its cash earnings for the first quarter, despite a large reduction in bad and doubtful debts related to the commodities sector.
Topics: banking, company-news, australia
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| UpdatedSeven West Media chief executive Tim Worner is cleared by a company-funded probe into allegations of misconduct related to an affair with a staff member.
Topics: media, company-news, corporate-governance, australia
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| UpdatedIf you thought it was hard to get into the housing market, it may yet get worse unless tax policies are changed to reduce investor demand. That's the warning of economists at Australia's biggest mortgage lender.
Topics: housing-industry, economic-trends, banking, money-and-monetary-policy, australia
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Resources companies are set to dominate share market listings early in 2017, after having been on the nose last year.
Topics: stockmarket, australia
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| UpdatedAnalysts are expecting a bumper earnings season for resources companies to offset a fairly weak period of profit growth for most other listed firms.
Topics: stockmarket, mining-industry, banking, retail, transport, australia
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| UpdatedA slightly lower-than-expected inflation figure gives the Reserve Bank scope to keep interest rates lower for longer.
Topics: economic-trends, money-and-monetary-policy, retail, australia
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| UpdatedMillions of Australians have profited from the mantra that house prices only ever go up. But is that shibboleth about to be demolished? Business reporter Michael Janda investigates.
Topics: housing-industry, economic-trends, australia
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| UpdatedListed real estate agency McGrath warns investors that its full-year profit will probably miss analyst forecasts, as it confronts an exodus of sales agents.
Topics: housing-industry, company-news, australia
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| UpdatedThe south-eastern states are leading Australia's economy, with previously struggling Tasmania looking to join that group, while the resources-dependent states continue to struggle.
Topics: economic-trends, australia
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| UpdatedUnemployment rises to 5.8 per cent, despite the creation of 13,500 jobs last month, due to an increase in people looking for work.
Topics: economic-trends, unemployment, australia
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| UpdatedBellamy's confirms it rejected a debt funding offer from shareholder Jan Cameron, as the commercial terms were "not favourable".
Topics: company-news, food-and-beverage, dairy-production, australia, tas
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| UpdatedFederal Reserve chair Janet Yellen boosts the US dollar with hints of multiple interest rate rises, just days after President-elect Donald Trump talked the greenback down.
Topics: currency, money-and-monetary-policy, stockmarket, futures, markets, united-states, united-kingdom, australia, european-union