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Roger Ailes, the founder and former CEO of Fox News, has died at the age of 77.

Former Fox News chief Roger Ailes dies after sexual harassment scandal

MEDIA & MARKETING
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Markets Live: ASX down, not out

Live
Patrick Commins and Myriam Robin
16 mins ago

With market volatility at historic lows, US investors had been 'sleepwalking' into the sell off.

Sharemarket volatility is back and big investors are smiling

ANALYSIS
Myriam Robin

Michael Schaper, deputy chairman of the ACCC, says small businesses are a far more attractive target for scammers than ...

'Tip of the iceberg': Business scams top $3.8 million, says ACCC

MANAGING
Cara Waters

Bosses who were morning types were also prone to discriminating against employees who were evening types.

At what time of the day are you working optimally? It depends on your chronotype

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Anna Patty

Fairfax Media, publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Australian Financial Review, could soon be in ...

Bidding war: It's 'game on' in the battle for control of Fairfax

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Sweatshop: Ivanka Trump chided over $US1-an-hour pay allegations

WORLD BUSINESS
Stephanie Wong

Market Indices

Updated: May 18, 2017 - 4:35PM

Updated: May 18, 2017 - 6:10PM

Updated: May 19, 2017 - 7:15AM

Updated: May 19, 2017 - 2:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7420

Percentage up/down

-0.01% fall
Euro

Price

0.6676

Percentage up/down

-0.10% fall
British Pound

Price

0.5731

Percentage up/down

-0.16% fall

Updated: May 19, 2017 - 9:19AM

We're crushing the confidence out of our own people.

Why working families are struggling to find balance

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell

InvoCare reported double-digit earnings growth last year.

Investors not coffin up for corporate afterlife

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

AFR. Portrait of the CEO of Fairfax Media Greg Hywood standing outside the Fairfax Offices in Sydney after the Annual ...

It's 'game on' in the battle for control of Fairfax

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

"The PBOC is using the stronger fixings to prevent panic sentiment from spreading to the currency market," said Xia Le, ...

China uses yuan to combat risk

Bloomberg News
1 hr ago

Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: Markets find their feet

Sponsored
1 hr ago

Fed officials have been cautious about building expectations of a fiscal policy-induced bump in economic growth into ...

Fed to press ahead with hikes

Rich Miller

The company has been considering a potential IPO since at least 2011 when former chief executive officer Ulrich Bez said ...

Aston Martin considers London IPO

Tommaso Ebhardt, Kiel Porter and Ruth David

ASX tumbles as Trump trade turns toxic

Patrick Commins

Markets Live: Trump trade turns ugly

Patrick Commins

Sirtex shares dumped on poor research outcome

Brian Robins

Online bettors punt on early end to Trump presidency

Angela Moon and Alistair Smout

Clean up some of our more obvious rorts, and we'd be well on the way.

Forget the banks, there's a better way for tax reform

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

ACCC chairman Rod Sims expects the watchdog's scrutiny of banks to change their pricing behaviour.

ACCC mortgage probe to demand banks' internal documents

Clancy Yeates

Bank of Queensland chief executive Jon Sutton says banks will still make "super profits" from mortgages, even with a ...

Bank tax is no 'free kick' for regional banks: Sutton

Clancy Yeates

Building approvals for apartments have surged in the big east coast cities in recent years.

Commercial property the bigger risk to banks: Fitch Ratings

Clancy Yeates

Peter Costello, Chairman of the Australian Future Fund, said he believed the banks would pass the cost of the tax onto ...

Customers, not shareholders, to feel bank levy pain: Costello

Georgia Wilkins

Architect and furniture maker Adam Markowitz.

The jobs that don't earn what you would expect

Craig Butt, Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, Stephanie Chen

Coates Hire is the latest major Australian employer to flag the option of applying for the Fair Work Commission to ...

Coates Hire workers in danger of 'devastating' pay cut

Nick Toscano

Lemons being harvested on irrigated land in Cobram, Victoria.

Unsustainable labour challenges leave Australia's vegetable supplies to rot

Anna Patty

Attuned to the anxieties of white America, Roger Ailes influenced conservative politics, amplified messages and picked ...

Roger Ailes: The man who paved the way for Donald Trump

Jim Rutenberg
34 mins ago

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Banks and government go to war, and shareholders are the losers

IN DEPTH
Clancy Yeates

SEEK chief Andrew Bassat.

A week is a long time in a rapidly changing media industry

"Life's very fragile. You don't know what's around the corner," says Brendon Cowie.

'You don't know what's around the corner': family hit by tragedy

Kim Arlington

AGL has launched proceedings against Jemena in the Supreme Court, for its failure to provide timely meter reads in NSW ...

'Biggest scam in NSW': 10,000 per cent blowout in gas bill

Lucy Cormack

It was a major recovery from a lukewarm previous quarter, proving that the internet behemoth still has room to grow.

Google's brand nightmare: Trademark, or generic word?

Peter Blumberg and Jef Feeley

The question for investors now is how much more growth is there left in Officeworks.

Skewered Officeworks sale raises wider Wesfarmers questions

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Wesfarmers has shelved plans for a $1.5 billion float of Officeworks.

Wesfarmers must face up to retail reality

Catie Low

Oroton launched its limited-edition, $8000 Alpine Croc bag in July.

Oroton shares dive after forecast of $10m earnings plunge

Patrick Hatch

Duluxgroup is betting demand from existing home owners will buffet it from a construction downturn.

Dulux paints bright outlook, thanks to home renovators

Patrick Hatch

An IPO of Officeworks wouldn't be in shareholders' best interests, Wesfarmers says.

Wesfarmers shelves Officeworks IPO

Patrick Hatch

Both full and part-time workers appear to be putting in fewer hours.

Jobless rate down, but Australians are working fewer hours

Peter Martin

We're crushing the confidence out of our own people.

Why working families are struggling to find balance

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell

The jobless rate fell to 5.7 per cent in April, beating expectations of a flat rate of 5.9 per cent.

Unemployment falls to 5.7% as part-time jobs rise

Treasurer Scott Morrison will welcome all three ratings agencies confirming the AAA credit rating.

S&P; affirms AAA rating but warns on return to surplus

James Massola

Making the switch.

Businesses, households paid to use less power next summer

Adam Morton

bhp

Investors are right to question BHP's immortal conceit

COMMENT
David Fickling

Using native title protections to prevent prospecting, 'Twiggy' Forrest has drawn criticism from fellow mining explorers ...

'Twiggy' Forrest uses native title to defend the farm

Jonathan Barrett

A pedestrian stands in front of a store window decorated with a giant Turkish flag in Istanbul, Turkey, on Tuesday, Jan. ...

Builder takes shot at Turkey

Simon Johanson

Tough market: Unit approvals have fallen dramatically and the changes may compress new approvals further.

Cap on foreign ownership to slow development projects

Simon Johanson

Sydney-based Intergen Property Group has appointed Cushman & Wakefield as the new manager of Centrepoint Tamworth ...

Local malls are in high demand

Carolyn Cummins

Roger Ailes, the founder and former CEO of Fox News, has died at the age of 77.

Former Fox News chief Roger Ailes dies

1 hr ago

Ivanka Trump chided over $US1-an-hour pay allegations

Stephanie Wong

Britain and the US have already banned the carrying of large electronic devices in cabins on flights arriving from ...

Wider laptops ban to cost passengers $US1 billion, airlines warn

Christopher Jasper, Guy Johnson and Marine Strauss

Cracking the two hour mark is the Holy Grail of marathons.

Breaking the two hour marathon: How to run your fastest time ever

The Long Run
1 hr ago

You can't afford to be cheap when it comes to shoes.

What should you really be paying for your shoes?

Men's Shoes

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Complex situation for defined benefit members

ASK NOEL
Noel Whittaker

Safety has long been the selling point for the Volvo.

'Trading shares is now a poor man's game'

Marcus Padley

Michael Schaper, deputy chairman of the ACCC, says small businesses are a far more attractive target for scammers than ...

Business scams top $3.8 million: ACCC

Cara Waters

Burleigh Brewing Company co-founder Peta Fielding also chairs the Independent Brewers Association.

Beer brawl as independents boot giants from association

Cara Waters

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