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Illustration: Simon Bosch

Can British Bunnings save the Wesfarmers renovation?

RETAIL
Neil Craven and Catie Low

David Gonski chaired the 2011 government inquiry into school funding.

Gonski 2.0: A sequel worth watching

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Most investors thought Donald Trump would lose to Hillary Clinton.

The Trump punt: the latest fashion in gambling

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

An image to be unveiled at the weekend's ALP state conference.

Low-paid cleaners to accost Premier at ALP conference

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Nick Toscano

All three major US indexes clocked losses for the week with the Dow and S&P falling 0.4 per cent and Nasdaq off 0.6 per cent.

Wall St pares gain late in session

MARKETS
Jeremy Herron and Dani Burger

Emmanuel Macron after winning the French election.

Macron can lead France to a Napoleonic ascent

COMMENT
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Quantity surveyors fear the change to the deduction of rental properties could be the thin edge of the tax man's wedge.

Coming for the tax lawyers – and quantity surveyors?

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Market Indices

Updated: May 19, 2017 - 5:00PM

Updated: May 19, 2017 - 6:08PM

Updated: May 20, 2017 - 7:15AM

Updated: May 20, 2017 - 2:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7464

Percentage up/down

0.58% rise
Euro

Price

0.6662

Percentage up/down

-0.36% fall
British Pound

Price

0.5727

Percentage up/down

0.00% steady

Updated: May 20, 2017 - 7:00AM

David Gonski chaired the 2011 government inquiry into school funding.

Gonski 2.0: A sequel worth watching

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Most investors thought Donald Trump would lose to Hillary Clinton.

The Trump punt: the latest fashion in gambling

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Quantity surveyors fear the change to the deduction of rental properties could be the thin edge of the tax man's wedge.

Coming for the tax lawyers – and quantity surveyors?

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Investors ranging from institutional accounts to retail clients plowed about $US1 billion into tech stocks during the ...

Tech sector inflows surge

Julie Verhage

Shareholders at the ASX in Sydney

Geopolitics drag ASX into the red

Jessica Sier

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Markets Live: No relief for ASX

Patrick Commins and Myriam Robin

Libby Cantrill: "We probably will see some more policy missteps, and some more fits and starts than you would otherwise."

Pimco warns Trump's unpredictability is a constant

Jessica Sier

China uses yuan to combat risk

Bloomberg News

8@eight: Markets find their feet

Sponsored

Fed to press ahead with hikes

Rich Miller

Aston Martin considers London IPO

Tommaso Ebhardt, Kiel Porter and Ruth David

CBA has tightened its lending policy for customers who want to borrow on an interest-only basis.

CBA slams brakes on interest-only loans

Georgia Wilkins

Macquarie is the latest lender to be wrapped up in a string of scandals that have plagued the trading arms of the banks.

Macquarie admits to misconduct inside its foreign exchange trading arm

Georgia Wilkins

There are predictions banks may cut commissions to mortgage brokers, who write more than half of all new home loans.

Tensions rising over mortgage broker commissions

Clancy Yeates

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

An image to be unveiled at the weekend's ALP state conference.

Low-paid cleaners to accost Premier at ALP conference

Nick Toscano

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

When are you working optimally? Depends on your chronotype

Anna Patty

Architect and furniture maker Adam Markowitz.

The jobs that don't earn what you would expect

Craig Butt, Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, Stephanie Chen

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Can British Bunnings save the Wesfarmers renovation?

Roger Ailes was pushed out of Fox News in July.

How Roger Ailes and Fox News changed the world

ANALYSIS
Nick O'Malley

Emmanuel Macron after winning the French election.

Macron can lead France to a Napoleonic ascent

COMMENT

"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

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Can British Bunnings save the Wesfarmers renovation?

Neil Craven and Catie Low

Husband and wife Emmet and Sarah Condon are the founders of Remedy Kombucha.

The fizzy drink that has soft drink giants scrambling

Madeleine Heffernan

Australians are visiting shopping centres less and less.

We are visiting shopping centres less and less

Madeleine Heffernan

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

Quantity surveyors fear the change to the deduction of rental properties could be the thin edge of the tax man's wedge.

Coming for the tax lawyers – and quantity surveyors?

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Lonely call: Most economists expect the RBA to keep rates at a record low of 1.5 per cent for the rest of the year.

RBA has to cut rates several times this year: analysts

Narayanan Somasundaram

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 Iona natural gas storage plant in Victoria sold for almost $1.8 billion in 2015.

QIC sues EnergyAustralia for $1b over deal gone wrong

Brian Robins

A dip in Chinese commodities futures triggered a round of selling in the miners.

Now that it's just BHP, what's to become of Billiton?

ANALYSIS
David Fickling

Switching off.

Businesses, households paid to use less power next summer

Adam Morton

The Property Council of Australia's NSW president Louise Mason is promoting the property industry to young women in high ...

Girls in property to boost future ranks

Louise Mason

Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL) managing director David Bowden.

Sales rep takes on Jones Lang Lasalle over unfair dismissal

Simon Johanson

Developer Tony Huang from Auyin Developments bought the Daily Planet brothel for $12.66 million last year.

Brothels make way for apartment towers

Simon Johanson

Roger Ailes' treatment of his female employees is being treated as a footnote to the greater story of his corporate ...

Ailes' death leaves behind several harassment-related lawsuits

Jena McGregor

Peter Dixon of Treasury Wine Estates with Australian wines at Jenny Lou's Shop in Beijing.

The Aussie brands conquering the wallets of Chinese millennials

Kirsty Needham

Emmanuel Macron after winning the French election.

Macron can lead France to a Napoleonic ascent

COMMENT
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

10 of the best world whiskies for WWD.

Celebrate World Whisky Day with one of these innovative drams

Smart Sipping

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This shirt, it’s YSL I got it in Paris which sounds very douche but it’s the nicest thing ever.

Trend setters: The 24 best-dressed men at Fashion Week

Men's Style

Troy Carter was instrumental in the early days of Lady Gaga's success.

Troy Carter overcame 'financial PTSD' to launch Lady Gaga

Catherine Robson

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Nicole helps ... secure deaf couple's future

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat can be an issue at work.

Politics is supposed to be a no-go zone for the workplace

James Adonis

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

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