David Taylor has been an ABC Reporter since 2011. As a general reporter, and a business and finance specialist, he has filed for a wide variety of programmes including The Business, 7pm, AM, The World Today, and PM. He works across radio, television and online. You can follow David on Twitter: @DavidTaylorABC
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| UpdatedWhile Australia enjoys a near-record run of economic growth without experiencing a recession, some bellwether businesses say the economy is more fragile than it looks.
Topics: sea-transport, economic-trends, mining-industry, industry, business-economics-and-finance, manufacturing, small-business, australia
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| UpdatedRight now, millions of Australians are feeling some level of job insecurity, and it's hurting, writes David Taylor.
Topics: work, community-and-society, business-economics-and-finance, social-policy, australia
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| UpdatedFinancial distress is affecting a huge number of Australians and the slightest wind could spell catastrophe for households, David Taylor writes.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, money-and-monetary-policy, australia
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| UpdatedThe National Debt Helpline says it is buckling under an unprecedented number of calls from Australians seeking financial counselling.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, australia
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Nearly half of all Australian households earning less than $40,000 a year said they went backwards financially last year, and only a third of households reported income gains, according to a survey.
Topics: globalisation---economy, unemployment, australia
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Some of the nation's biggest legal heavy-hitters push the Australian Government to end the death penalty worldwide.
Topics: death, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, laws, human, australia, indonesia
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How the elevation of Donald Trump, and the early days of his presidency, has the hallmarks of an outrageous primary school election strategy.
Topics: markets, us-elections, world-politics, australia
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| UpdatedYou 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.
Topics: stockmarket, markets, currency, business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, futures, trade, government-and-politics, united-states, australia
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| UpdatedAustralians under 35 are being encouraged to invest in the share market instead of buying a home.
Topics: housing-industry, industry, business-economics-and-finance, markets, australia
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Energy bills could be about to rise significantly over the next few years, new research shows.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, alternative-energy, oil-and-gas, industry, australia
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Last night Donald Trump put a rocket under the Australian dollar as he delivered his first press conference as President-elect of the United States.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, currency, markets, us-elections, australia, united-states
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The intense publicity generated by a series of shark attacks on the New South Wales North Coast this season is testing the resilience of communities that rely on tourism to the region.
Topics: shark, human-interest, animal-attacks, ballina-2478, byron-bay-2481, forster-2428, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedThere is no bigger economic threat right now than a trade war between Australia's largest and third largest trading partners, and Donald Trump appears ready to pull the trigger.
Topics: trade, business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, international-aid-and-trade, markets, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedAustralia's wealthiest suburbs are among the most vulnerable postcodes in terms of mortgage stress, according to expert analysis showing households in Melbourne's Toorak or Sydney's Bondi are up to five times more likely to default on mortgage payments than the national average.
Topics: housing-industry, economic-trends, banking, money-and-monetary-policy, australia
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A trade war between the United States and China is a very real possibility after President-elect Donald Trump takes office in just over two weeks, a leading independent economist says.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, trade, currency, markets, australia, united-states, china
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| UpdatedFinance experts criticise Treasurer Scott Morrison's comments on large amounts of household debt as "inane and stupid", saying assets are only increasing in value because debt is used to buy them.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, budget, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedIf you live in Sydney or Melbourne and look out the window you may not see a recession, but the view is different in many parts of Australia.
Topics: economic-trends, australia
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Already elevated petrol prices are tipped to spike in the week leading up to Christmas after oil-producing countries agreed to production cuts.
Topics: oil-and-gas, industry, business-economics-and-finance, australia, russian-federation, canada, saudi-arabia
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Thought about share investing but not sure where to start? Business reporter David Taylor explains the basics, including the pitfalls and upsides, of jumping into the market.
Topics: stockmarket, consumer-finance, australia
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| UpdatedAustralian motorists are being warned of the possibility of a 10 cents per litre increase in the price of petrol in coming weeks.
Topics: oil-and-gas, world-politics, australia
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Booming Sydney property prices are showing no signs of slowing, according to the latest private research.
Topics: housing-industry, industry, business-economics-and-finance, sydney-2000, australia, nsw, wa, perth-6000
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The residential care model for children unable to be placed in foster homes should be thrown out in favour of a "science-based solution", a paediatrics expert says.
Topics: child-abuse, family-and-children, community-and-society, carers, child-care, australia
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Donald Trump appears to be a game-changer on global financial markets, flipping inflation expectations and sparking a big bond sell-off.
Topics: markets, economic-trends, stockmarket, futures, money-and-monetary-policy, us-elections, united-states, australia
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| UpdatedGlobal financial markets hold onto strong gains on the eve of the US election on expectations of a win for Hillary Clinton.
Topics: markets, us-elections, united-states, mexico, australia
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Australia's multi-year construction boom engineered by the Reserve Bank to stimulate the property market is coming to an end, private sector data shows.
Topics: housing-industry, building-and-construction, australia