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'Regulators privately concede that there is just no way on earth they will ever allow any meaningfully sized Australian ...

Big Four bank rout wipes $50 billion in value so far in May

BANKING AND FINANCE
Clancy Yeates

Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: Firm platform for ASX

Sponsored
Chris Weston
1 hr ago

Styletread is Australia's largest online shoe retailer.?

Foot obsession a stepping-stone to a $100 million business

ENTREPRENEUR
Cara Waters

Concentrated solar power uses the sun's heat, rather than its light, from a field of heliostat mirrors.

How 'fast-moving clouds' helped turn pioneering project into pile of scrap

BUSINESS
Mark Solomons

Lynette Phillips, founder of MaxMediaLabs, has over a million American Express points.

Meet the small business owners who are point-hacking gurus

MY SMALL BUSINESS
Cara Waters

AEMO boss Audrey Zibleman says a consumer-lead energy revolution was on its way.

Plan now to avoid power blackouts this summer, government told

ENERGY
Brian Robins

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Can British Bunnings save the Wesfarmers renovation?

RETAIL
Neil Craven and Catie Low

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

0.7456

Percentage up/down

-0.07% fall
Euro

Price

0.6652

Percentage up/down

-0.14% fall
British Pound

Price

0.5725

Percentage up/down

-0.19% fall

Updated: May 22, 2017 - 9:09AM

Malcolm Turnbull: "If we don't sell [coal] to [India], someone else will.''

Labor-lite budget ticks all the boxes for Turnbull

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Illustration: John Shakespeare.

Fairfax sale plot keeps twisting for TPG

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

David Gonski chaired the 2011 government inquiry into school funding.

Gonski 2.0: A sequel worth watching

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

The spot price of iron ore rallied 1.8 per cent to $USUS62.69 a tonne on Friday as Chinese steel futures rallied. Credit ...

Commodities bounce off Chinese hopes to lift ASX

Timothy Moore

Ming companies should be able to create value independent of moves in selling prices: Schroder. Photographer: Vincent ...

Cheap mining not a slave to commodity prices

Patrick Commins

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

Jeremy Herron and Dani Burger

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

Tech sector inflows surge

Julie Verhage

Geopolitics drag ASX into the red

Jessica Sier

Markets Live: No relief for ASX

Patrick Commins and Myriam Robin

Pimco warns Trump's unpredictability is a constant

Jessica Sier

China uses yuan to combat risk

Bloomberg News

Former tennis legend and BBY Director Ken Rosewall at the Supreme court in 2016.

Tennis great faces legal claim over BBY collapse

Sarah Danckert

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

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

As petrol prices rise and cycles become irregular, motorists are looking for new ways to save money.

How motorists could be paying less for petrol soon

Esther Han

"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

Lidl is owned by the privately held Schwarz Group, one of the world's largest retailers.

Lidl hedges bets for 'concentrated' Oz market

Madeleine Heffernan

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

Malcolm Turnbull: "If we don't sell [coal] to [India], someone else will.''

Labor-lite budget ticks all the boxes for Turnbull

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

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

Turtle protections have been dropped for the Adani Abbot Point proposed Terminal 0.

Turnbull government cuts Adani's Abbot Point turtle controls

Peter Hannam

AEMO boss Audrey Zibelman. It has forecast electricity shortages this summer

Plan now to avoid power blackouts this summer, government told

Brian Robins

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

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

Young couple with smartphones in their bed.

The texting tool that's helping men and women understand each other

Culture
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<b>Blake Sutherland</b><br>
This shirt, it’s YSL I got it in Paris which sounds very douche but it’s the nicest thing ever.

Trend setters: 24 of the 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

Lee Munro is the managing director of Styletread.

Foot obsession stepping-stone to $100 million business

Cara Waters

Lynette Phillips, founder of MaxMediaLabs, has over a million American Express points.

Meet the small business owners who are point-hacking gurus

Cara Waters

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