Business Day

Bellamy's shares surged on news of a change in Chinese policy.

China wants 'level playing field' for e-commerce

RETAIL
Kirsty Needham
49 mins ago

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Markets Live: Blackmores jumps on China backflip

Live
Patrick Commins
1 min ago

Police escorting non-union labour to Patrick Stevedores through the MUA picket lines in 1998. Today, strike action is low.

Why industrial relations is Australia's everlasting battle

ANALYSIS
Jessica Irvine
50 mins ago

Signs are emerging that mining companies are slowly hiring again.

Mining recovery reaches the coalface

MARKETS
Jens Meyer
51 mins ago

Booming property markets in Sydney and Melbourne continue to concern the RBA,

'Build-up of risks': RBA sends warning on housing

THE ECONOMY

Westpac's barrister, Jeremy Kirk, SC, said ASIC had "not alleged that any consumer ... had suffered any hardship, let ...

Westpac takes aim at ASIC over 'ambitious' home loan lawsuit

BANKING AND FINANCE
Michaela Whitbourn

The resurgent iron ore price helped Gina Rinehart double her fortune in 2016, according to Forbes.

Rinehart soars up Forbes Rich List but Trump tumbles

WORLD BUSINESS
Latika Bourke

Market Indices

Updated: March 21, 2017 - 4:37PM

Updated: March 21, 2017 - 4:33PM

Updated: March 21, 2017 - 8:15AM

Updated: March 21, 2017 - 4:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7705

Percentage up/down

-0.36% fall
Euro

Price

0.7160

Percentage up/down

-0.57% fall
British Pound

Price

0.6235

Percentage up/down

-0.35% fall

Updated: March 21, 2017 - 4:40PM

Illustration: John Shakespeare

Time is money for King of Cannabis Nevil Schoenmakers

Colin Kruger, CBD

Treasurer Scott Morrison is still talking a big game.

Scott Morrison's Monty Python moment

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

ATM withdrawals have fallen to their lowest levels in 15 years

Someone has to give if we're to fix the budget

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Julian Beaumont, Bennelong Australian Equity Partners' investment director, told Fairfax the fund focuses on situations ...

Bennelong sticking to quality path

Myriam Robin
1 hr ago

Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: Searching for a catalyst

Sponsored
Gary Burton

Evans also said that the Fed will likely wait at least until a June policy meeting to decide whether to lift US interest ...

Treasuries rally on Fed gradualism

Australia's grain crop hit an all-time high in 2016-17.

Record wheat output to fuel GDP

Myriam Robin

Harvey Norman hit hard as ASX falls

Myriam Robin

Markets Live: Harvey Norman shares slide

Live
Jens Meyer

8@eight: Waiting for direction

Sponsored
Gary Burton

Doves may cry as nine US Fed members take stage

Timothy Moore

David Rockefeller, pictured in 1981.

Billionaire banker, philanthropist David Rockefeller dies at 101

Martyn Wild has been issued with a formal 'first and final warning'.

Westpac executive faces sexual harassment claim

EXCLUSIVE
Elizabeth Knight

Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority chairman Wayne Byres doesn't use the B-word, but says "we are in an ...

Housing market at 'heightened risk', but it's not 'the B-word'

Sarah Danckert

Bob Katter will introduce a private member's bill to Parliament.

'I'm very confident': Katter and Christensen team up on banking inquiry

Matthew Knott

ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft is cracking down on unrealistic valuations in financial reports.

ASIC warns on housing bubble, cyber threats

Sarah Danckert

Martyn Wild has been issued with a formal 'first and final warning'.

Westpac executive faces sexual harassment claim

EXCLUSIVE
Elizabeth Knight

Footage obtained by the Transport Workers Union shows squalid conditions for workers at Sydney International Airport.

Footage reveals airport staff in squalor inside Sydney Airport

Mario Christodoulou

Greens MP Adam Bandt joins with Labor to introduce a bill to invalidate the Fair Work Commission's decision to reduce ...

Crossbenchers urged to 'put up or shut up' on penalty rates

Anna Patty

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Game of phones: Telstra's regional roaming rage

Lucy Battersby

Boom time for the box out the back of Bourke

Lucy Battersby

David Herman

A lawyer's love for all creatures great and small

Mark Hawthorne

Radio Rentals is being investigated over alleged responsible lending breaches.

Radio Rentals faces compensation bill over alleged breaches

Georgia Wilkins
33 mins ago

"The one thing you have to do is keep everyone in the loop:" Sydney Airbnb host Spencer Kirk.

'More people invite total strangers from Tinder or Grindr': Spencer's Airbnb quandary

EXCLUSIVE
Lucy Cormack

Health experts are concerned about the hidden levels of salt in bread.

The 'healthy' bread that contains as much salt as packet of chips

Esther Han

Bellamy's shares surged on news of a change in Chinese policy.

China wants 'level playing field' for e-commerce

Kirsty Needham
49 mins ago

Coles said it supported "voluntary options on single-use, lightweight plastic bags because our customers have told us ...

Aldi reignites debate over plastic bag ban

Madeleine Heffernan
1 hr ago

Consumer confidence in both Australia and New Zealand were "reasonably OK".

Australia is 'our great opportunity', says Kathmandu

Madeleine Heffernan

Premier Investments CEO Mark McInnes (left) and chairman Solomon Lew are counting on Smiggle to underpin group profit ...

Smiggle, Peter Alexander shine among retail gloom

Catie Low

Former Dick Smith CEO Nick Abboud.

Receivers launch legal action against Dick Smith directors, ex-CEO

Signs are emerging that mining companies are slowly hiring again.

Mining recovery reaches the coalface

Jens Meyer
51 mins ago

Booming property markets in Sydney and Melbourne continue to concern the RBA,

'Build-up of risks': RBA sends warning on housing

Michael Heath

The Reserve Bank of Australia's first female assistant governor for economics, Luci Ellis, has pointed the finger at ...

Sex segregation set to get worse, says RBA chief economist

Jessica Irvine

Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority chairman Wayne Byres doesn't use the B-word, but says "we are in an ...

Housing market at 'heightened risk', but it's not 'the B-word'

Sarah Danckert

QRC chief Ian MacFarlane welcomed the deal, saying supply issues for gas federally would be partially offset by the new ...

Gas project spells 161 new wells, 30 jobs in Queensland

1 hr ago

A surge in the coal price has underwritten a profit rise for New Hope following its purchase of 40 per cent of the ...

New Hope won't rule out buying Wesfarmers stake in Bengalla

Brian Robins
1 hr ago

A Chinese woman wears a mask and filter as she walks to work during heavy pollution on December 9, 2015, in Beijing.

Beijing's pollution plight to get worse with climate change, study finds

Peter Hannam

Chris Johnson is the chief executive of Urban Taskforce.

Driving housing supply and affordability

Chris Johnson

Macarthur Square has opened its $240 million retail redevelopment in south west Sydney.

Big gun malls in the billion-dollar sales club

Carolyn Cummins

Owners of safe haven properties will see some benefit from the US federal reseve interest rate policy

Fed rate rise boosts Australian property interest

Carolyn Cummins

A council inspector checks a piece of meat at a supermarket in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.

Tainted meat scandal roils Brazil as China, EU, others suspend imports

Brad Brooks and Dominique Patton

At a pop-up Adidas store in a mall in Berlin, customers designed their own merino wool jumpers for €200 ($278) each and ...

Adidas trials personalised jumpers for $278, ready in four hours

The resurgent iron ore price helped Gina Rinehart double her fortune in 2016, according to Forbes.

Rinehart soars up Forbes Rich List but Trump tumbles

Latika Bourke

Common Projects Achilles low-top

Six super-luxury sneakers that actually increase in value

Men's Shoes
1 hr ago

Challenge yourself with pace, not distance.

Training smarter, not longer, is the best way to improve

The Long Run

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How Airbnb hosts can avoid a land tax bill

Noel Whittaker

Mining is Australia's highest paid sector, and heavily dominated by men.

The truth about measuring the gender pay gap

Bianca Hartge-Hazelman

Yoko Inoue runs Cafe Shokuiku.

Small businesses join the raw food revolution

Christine D'Mello

Confusion exists over how to claim the GST included in car expenses.

GST confusion for cars

Max Newnham

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