Business Day

Stanford University was part of the American reinvention.

University howler calls for dogged leadership

COMMENT & ANALYSIS
Harold Mitchell

Nab has unveiled a lift in profit.

NAB to push hard on costs for growth in tough environment

BANKING AND FINANCE
Mathew Dunckley

Rote Island seaweed farmer Nikodemus Manefa with his crop. Seaweed farmers say the Montara spill devastated their ...

Indonesia launches $2.6 billion lawsuit over WA oil spill

ENERGY
Jewel Topsfield

Exports from Port Hedland climbed to 42.3 million tonnes in April, the Pilbara Ports Authority said on Thursday. That's ...

Iron ore sinks even further amid oversupply

MINING AND RESOURCES
Bloomberg News

A break of support at $US5563 a tonne in LME copper prices could trigger a loss into the range of $US5433-$US5508, ...

Copper at five month low and poised for further drop

MINING AND RESOURCES

Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe has warned of rising house prices.

The banks aren't the risk, consumers are warns RBA

THE ECONOMY
Mathew Dunckley

Rio Tinto chief executive JS Jacques at the AGM.

Rio Tinto watching for Chinese iron ore mining

MINING AND RESOURCES

Market Indices

Updated: May 4, 2017 - 4:38PM

Updated: May 4, 2017 - 6:09PM

Updated: May 5, 2017 - 6:53AM

Updated: May 5, 2017 - 2:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7410

Percentage up/down

-0.19% fall
Euro

Price

0.6746

Percentage up/down

-1.07% fall
British Pound

Price

0.5735

Percentage up/down

-0.61% fall

Updated: May 5, 2017 - 7:00AM

Illustration: John Shakespeare.

Incoming boss at Primary Health Care has exit plan

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

FREE? Does the pardoned turkey get to live out a long life on the farm post-pardoning? Well, not really ...

No role for turkeys in Sydney's second airport

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci says its supermarkets business is still in the early stages of a (five-year) ...

Woolies races to get match fit for Amazon fight

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

The slide worsened after OPEC delegates downplayed the chance that their group and other producing countries would ...

Oil dives on stubborn global glut

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Markets Live: NAB gains as ASX retreats

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer

"Negative momentum persists,' said Westpac's Imre Speizer, noting that the Aussie also lost ground against both the euro ...

Australian dollar taken to the cleaners

Timothy Moore

The Model 3 remains on schedule for output to start in July, Tesla said as it reported first-quarter results.

Tesla assures Model 3 on time

Dana Hull

Fed undeterred by slow growth

Jeanna Smialek and Christopher Condon

Lowe used to like rates to calm bubbles

Patrick Commins

ASX suffers worst day in six weeks

Patrick Commins and Sarah Turner

Markets Live: Vocus plunges on second guidance downgrade

Patrick Commins and Myriam Robin

Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen: the Fed kept rates steady overnight.

US Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady

Lindsay Dunsmuir and Jason Lange

ANZ reduced rates on the one-year deposit by 45 basis points.

ANZ Bank has the cash to buy back shares, analysts say

Clancy Yeates

ANZ chief Shayne Elliott said the combination of low wage growth and rising household debt was unsustainable.

ANZ boss warns of an economic risk on the horizon

Clancy Yeates

ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott

ANZ axes thousands of jobs to reach $3.4b profit

Clancy Yeates

Slater & Gordon is working on a restructure to appease its bankers.

Slater and Gordon in dispute with British group over case quality

Sarah Danckert

Ingrid Jenkins, HR director Microsoft Australia.

Microsoft's new parent policy sets new standard

Anna Patty

Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James.

Bad bosses using shoddy books to beat law

Anna Patty

Tim Fung, CEO and co-founder of Airtasker.

Airtasker, unions make agreement to improve pay rates, conditions

EXCLUSIVE
Anna Patty

Illustration: Simon Bosch

How high is too high for Australia's cannabis stocks?

Patrick Hatch

Malcolm Turnbull

Are the 457 visa reforms an illusion act?

IN DEPTH
Anna Patty

Rupert Murdoch (centre) with his sons Lachlan (left) and James (right).

Murdoch's defiance turns to pragmatism

ANALYSIS
Michael Grynbaum

Flexible braided hoses accounted for more than one in five water damage claims lodged by Australian households in 2016, ...

The $10 household fitting that could be a 'ticking time bomb'

Staff reporters

Nick Xenophon in ugg boots.

'I want to fight this right to the end': The do-or-die battle over the word 'Ugg'

Lucy Cormack

NSW has the second-most solar photovoltaic capacity among the states.

The good news for solar customers that's bad for everyone else

Lucy Cormack

Woolworths has struggled to maintain momentum.

Investors checking out of Woolworths recovery story

Mathew Dunckley

Woolworths said total group sales were up 4.4 per cent to $13.8 billion in the 13 weeks to April 2.

Woolworths blitzes Coles but Big W woes deepen

Madeleine Heffernan

Some are bearish about the prospects for discount department stores.

Big W: basket case, boil, or slow burn?

ANALYSIS
Madeleine Heffernan

Victoria Station owns Kate Hill, which sells handbags and wallets and has 21 stores.

Victoria Station and Kate Hill retail chains call in administrators

Patrick Hatch

Ksenjia Lukich (left) and Jesinta Franklin attend the Aje show at the Art Gallery of NSW on Monday.

Store wars: Aussie label leaves Myer for DJs

Melissa Singer

Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe has warned of rising house prices.

The banks aren't the risk, consumers are warns RBA

Mathew Dunckley

The housing market is becoming overcooked.

Rising population won't prevent housing slump

Mathew Dunckley

Borio is the head of the monetary and economic department at the Bank of International Settlements, known as "the ...

Lowe used to like rates to calm bubbles

Patrick Commins

The budget lock up ahead of the Treasurer Tim Pallas handing down the budget.

Victorian budget focuses on business tax relief, jobs creation

Nassim Khadem

A break of support at $US5563 a tonne in LME copper prices could trigger a loss into the range of $US5433-$US5508, ...

Copper poised for further drop

The slide worsened after OPEC delegates downplayed the chance that their group and other producing countries would ...

Oil dives on stubborn global glut

Exports from Port Hedland climbed to 42.3 million tonnes in April, the Pilbara Ports Authority said on Thursday. That's ...

Iron ore sinks amid oversupply

Bloomberg News

Salta Properties managing director Sam Tarascio at the Docklands site which will become a hotel and apartment block.

First 'multi-family' apartment tower to go ahead

Simon Johanson

Going up: The new Ritz-Carlton hotel at The Star.

Major hotel operators sets sights on Australia

Carolyn Cummins

Dexus has struck a deal securing IOOF at 30 The Bond, Sydney.

Dexus welcomes Amazon

Carolyn Cummins

Plain packaging may hurt smaller cigarette makers the most if smokers increasingly adopt the best-known options such as ...

WTO said to back tobacco logo ban

Bryce Baschuk

Former seaweed farmer Albert Ngguse.

Indonesia launches $2.6 billion lawsuit over WA oil spill

Jewel Topsfield

A series of unfortunate events and management blunders: The $6.5 billion takeover of Toll Holdings has turned into a ...

From stardust to ashes: How Japan Post's $6.5b bet on Toll unravelled

Thomas Wilson and Byron Kaye

For the founder of MWC, launching a watch company was as simple as quitting one job and starting a new one.

The little Aussie watch company taking on the luxury giants

Watches

Airbnb is targeting business travellers.

Hotel chains should be nervous about Airbnb's new function

Business Travel

Adelaide-based wealth adviser Louise Pfeiffer, 39, has chosen a career and business that will maximise her ability to ...

Meet the 'effective altruists' who earn to give

Lindy Alexander

Telstra's share price is under pressure as mobile competition increases.

Telstra's a tough call for its one million shareholders

John Collett

Should we accept that 43 universities, in a population of 24 million, is the right number?

Does Australia have too many universities?

COMMENT: Tony Featherstone

CocoVivo in Panama is one of the world's most beautiful and remote coworking spaces.

The world's five most exotic co-working spaces

Elissa Doherty

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