Business Day

First home buyers face high prices, and interest rates that are likely to go up.

If you paid 17% interest in the '80s, you're lucky

COMMENT
Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett says spending excess cash on buying back shares is a great way to use ...

Applying Warren Buffett-isms to the ASX

MARKETS
Jessica Sier
51 mins ago

The benchmark ASX200 shed 0.3 per cent to 5724.2 on Monday, despite strong leads from the S&P500 and Dow Jones, the ...

Big banks drag ASX into the red

MARKETS
Jessica Sier
22 mins ago

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Banks are amateurs compared with insurers

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

John Neal's bonus was cut by $550,000 after not informing the company's board of his relationship with his executive ...

QBE chief hit with $550k pay cut after relationship with secretary

BUSINESS
Elizabeth Knight

Slater & Gordon

90 days: clock is ticking for Slater and Gordon

UPDATED
Brian Robins
1 hr ago

Keeping the lights on is proving an ever more expensive challenge for the major supermarket chains.

'Electricity is going up by a fortune this year'

RETAIL
Catie Low

Market Indices

Updated: February 27, 2017 - 4:38PM

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Updated: February 25, 2017 - 4:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7692

Percentage up/down

0.27% rise
Euro

Price

0.7279

Percentage up/down

0.21% rise
British Pound

Price

0.6191

Percentage up/down

0.55% rise

Updated: February 27, 2017 - 4:47PM

Businesses will win from penalty rate changes but will anybody else?

Cut in penalty rates another win for 'bizonomics'

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Michael Ebeid, managing director of SBS, says companies must engage with the diversity of their customer base.

Ignoring customer diversity is bad business

Michael Ebeid

Australia Post CEO Ahmed Fahour has resigned after seven years.

Fahour's last Post payout takes decade to deliver

Colin Kruger, CBD

UBS economists argue a current account surplus is firmly in view.

First current account surplus since 1970s seen

Myriam Robin
34 mins ago

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Markets Live: Earnings up, ASX down

Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer
44 mins ago

Investors are eager to hear Donald Trump expand on his promises.

8@eight: Investors jittery ahead of Trump speech

Sponsored
Gary Burton

US President Donald Trump will address Congress on Tuesday.

Optimistic markets count on Trump tax plan

Vesna Poljak

Buffett praises immigrants, lashes 'monkey' money managers

Landon Thomas Jr.

International traders look to Australia for their next big short

Adam Haigh and David Stringer

Dow continues record run as Wall St edges higher

Murray Goulburn discloses losses, ASIC and ACCC investigations

Brian Robins

Full-year net profit jumped 5 per cent.

QBE announces $1b share buy-back

Patrick Hatch

More than a third of Australian super funds have less than $1 billion in funds under management.

Merge or fold: Super fund administrator sounds warning to small funds

Georgia Wilkins

Avoiding a 'carbon bubble' is front of mind for a growing number of investors.

Investors pushing business to avoid a carbon-bubble bust

IN DEPTH
Clancy Yeates

Brokers say customers could be on the hook for loans that can't be approved.

CBA dumps brokers who don't send enough business their way

Georgia Wilkins

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

Trump rally helps limit IAG's profit decline

Woolworths workers have been on a wage deal that expired in 2015.

Big retailers to push through new deals after penalty rate decision

Nick Toscano

The penalty rates cuts disproportionately target women in work.

How the penalty rates decision hurts women

ANALYSIS
Caitlin Fitzsimmons

At the very least, sharing information that's not yours to share is annoying. It could also be a liability.

21 email habits that make everyone hate you

Rachel Gillett

Avoiding a 'carbon bubble' is front of mind for a growing number of investors.

Investors pushing business to avoid a carbon-bubble bust

IN DEPTH
Clancy Yeates

'To avoid a hard landing we really have to provide support for the economy.'

Meeting that stops our nation, and our miners

ANALYSIS
Brian Robins

Madgi Batato, global vice president of Nestle.

Meet the King of the KitKats

Mark Hawthorne

NBN will connect about 700,000 households using fibre-to-the-curb technology.

These are the Sydney suburbs getting the NBN by June

Lucy Cormack

Veda is Australia's biggest credit reporting agency.

Problem with your credit report? New fears it'll be harder to resolve

Esther Han

Camilla Kaftans sell for upwards of $499.

Camilla kaftan lover charged after posing as security guard

Lucy Cormack

South African retailers marching to our shores

Carolyn Cummins

Colette by Colette Hayman earrings

Super funds snag new handbag business

Madeleine Heffernan

Keeping the lights on is proving an ever more expensive challenge for the major supermarket chains.

'Electricity is going up by a fortune this year'

Catie Low

Madgi Batato, global vice president of Nestle.

Meet the King of the KitKats

Mark Hawthorne

Rebel Sport said the success of women's AFL and Big Bash cricket had made it easier to get sportswear designed for women ...

Pink it and shrink it? Sports equipment catches up with women's success

Patrick Hatch

UBS economists argue a current account surplus is firmly in view.

First current account surplus since 1970s seen

Myriam Robin
34 mins ago

Treasurer Scott Morrison has spruiked tax cuts but they could hurt the economy initially.

Company tax cut payoff will 'take years'

Peter Martin

Businesses will win from penalty rate changes but will anybody else?

Cut in penalty rates another win for 'bizonomics'

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Happy Treasurer: Every economist polled by Bloomberg believes Australia avoided a technical recession in the second half ...

GDP rebound expected in fourth quarter

Myriam Robin

Adani claims its Carmichael mine will create 4000 jobs, but this figure has been challenged.

Adani accused of withholding evidence

Murilo Ferreira, chief executive officer of Vale SA, is leaving his post.

Vale chief executive ousted as Brazil seeks new blood

Sabrina Valle and Peter Millard

Former Queensland Nickel managing director Clive Mensink has failed to give evidence over the $300 million corporate ...

Clive Palmer's nephew Clive Mensink returning from trip in economy class

Toby Mann

DEXUS Property has upgraded its food court at Sydney's Grosvenor Place, to ensure staff in the building have relaxation ...

Landlords, tenants embracing the new 'placemaker' trends

Carolyn Cummins

South Sydney, once the domain of the industrial juggernaut, Goodman, is now dotted with high-density Meriton apartments.

The death of the suburban and home office

Michael Cook

Inner-city commercial property values rose more than most.

Bill shock for landlords as land tax skyrockets

Simon Johanson

Steven Mnuchin talked up tax cuts but said he didn't expect any acceleration in the US economy until 2018.

Trump's highly anticipated budget will not cut 'entitlements'

David Lawder

Murilo Ferreira, chief executive officer of Vale SA, is leaving his post.

Vale chief executive ousted as Brazil seeks new blood

Sabrina Valle and Peter Millard

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, left, and Anthony Levandowski.

Engineer is now Google's no.1 enemy

Writer Phil Barker with partner Jayde.

My partner and I are breaking an outdated relationship taboo

Life On Mars

Riz Ahmed at the Oscars.

Men in black, boys in blue: The best dressed blokes at the Oscars

Men's Style

Australians spend more on vitamins than prescription drugs.

Do we pay more for hope than health?

Georgina Dent

We all need a house, but buying one is not so cheap.

The case for letting first home buyers use super

Daryl Dixon

Melany McBride and Amy Parfett had 'nothing to lose' when they started WedShed in their 20s.

Why starting a business in your 20s is the way to go

Cara Waters

Jen Geale, the co-owner of Mountain Bikes Direct, was struggling for profitability.

How a financial detox saved my business

Nina Hendy

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