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Over the weekend, policy hawk Patrick Harker, president of the Fed bank in Philadelphia, affirmed his bullish view for ...

Doubts grow over rate hike path for the Federal Reserve

MARKETS
Timothy Moore

Toyota has cashed out its stake in Tesla

Toyota confirms it has sold up its stake in Tesla

BUSINESS

Bunnings Group chief executive John Gillam is blunt about the big turnaround task in the UK but he's convinced it can ...

Bunnings finds it can afford to shun online

ANALYSIS
Madeleine Heffernan

Changes are coming to frequent flyer programs.

It's about to get harder to earn Frequent Flyer points

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Uber has become a global headache for the taxi industry.

Uber is transportation, but keep that on the down low

ANALYSIS
Nir Kaissar

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Are the wheels really falling off Australia's economy?

ANALYSIS
Myriam Robin

'The Get Down' cost at least $US120 million for one season.

Netflix shows are all worldwide hits - until they're not

ANALYSIS
Lucas Shaw

Market Indices

Updated: June 2, 2017 - 4:38PM

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Updated: June 3, 2017 - 7:15AM

Updated: June 3, 2017 - 2:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7449

Percentage up/down

-0.08% fall
Euro

Price

0.6605

Percentage up/down

-0.08% fall
British Pound

Price

0.5777

Percentage up/down

0.00% steady

Updated: June 4, 2017 - 4:32PM

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre.

How Treasury spends billions without hitting key deficit

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Changes are coming to frequent flyer programs.

It's about to get harder to earn Frequent Flyer points

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Buiter has been forecasting a recession for a couple of years now.

Property market scaremongers need to pipe down

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

No need to panic: not all sectors have been falling and the ASX is still close to recent highs.

Growth slowdown won't spark ASX meltdown

Jens Meyer
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"Today's payroll report was suboptimal, for sure, and that's driving a stake through the US dollar," said Minh Trang, a ...

US dollar drops as rate odds recalibrated

Dennis Pettit and Alexandria Arnold

The continuing low unemployment rate - more than a year without breaking the 5 per cent mark - will only sharpen the ...

Jobs report keeps rate hike in play

Patricia Cohen

Industrial stocks posted some of the week's best performances, helping push the S&P/ASX200 to its second weekly gain.

Wall St helps ASX recover from May slump

Myriam Robin

Defiant, Aussie business leaders slam Trump's decision

Patrick Hatch

Markets Live: Wall St rally fires up ASX

Jens Meyer

Trump doesn't care. Can investors do the right thing?

COMMENT
Scott Phillips

Nikkei tops 20,000 as Japan outlook brightens

Ayai Tomisawa

"Macquarie consistently looks at the most appropriate locations for its businesses and head office," a spokeswoman said.

Macquarie leaves open option of HQ move

Jamie Freed

Interest rates on savings accounts have fallen more than the RBA's cash rate in the past year.

Banks cut interest rates they pay to long-term savers

Clancy Yeates

Wesley "Wes" Hall, former chief operating officer of the advice unit in the BT Financial Group at Westpac.

Former senior executive took drugs at work functions: Westpac

Louise Hall

Gerard McCormack, of South Melbourne, was banned for five years by the regulator last year.

Ex-NAB planner banned after stealing $2.3m, another fights ban

Georgia Wilkins

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Are the good times ending for Aussie fund managers?

Emily Cadman and Ruth Liew

CFMEU claims right-of-entry ruling will put "lives at risk".

Court rules on site bans for top CFMEU officials

Nick Toscano

Even though Seven was unhappy about Tim Worner's affair with Amber Harrison, it felt he was too good to fire.

WordPress spurns Australian court over Amber Harrison leak

Nick Toscano

Documents claim Kathleen Purkis undercut the pay of three employees by more than $40,000.

Shark Tank contestant exploited staff: Ombudsman

Nick Toscano

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Are the wheels really falling off Australia's economy?

ANALYSIS
Myriam Robin

Bunnings' price promise has helped it dominate hardware in Australia.

Bunnings finds it can afford to shun online

ANALYSIS
Madeleine Heffernan

Every time there is tech froth, people will argue why this is or isn't different from 1999.

Talk about tech bubble is flashback to the dot-com era

COMMENT
Shira Ovide

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 01: James Oliver Manager of the Capsule Hotel sits in one of the delux capsuls, at the Capsule ...

$50 to spend a night in a futuristic pod

Esther Han

Food waste is a massive problem for Australian businesses.

NSW households throwing away $3800 every year

Lucy Cormack

Creative Gourmet frozen berries are being pulled from shelves.

Creative Gourmet frozen berries recalled again over hepatitis A fears

Liam Mannix

Gwen Stefani performs during the Wal-Mart Shareholders Meeting Friday, June 2, 2017, at Bud Walton Arena in ...

Gwen Stefani and a worker pay push: inside Walmart's AGM

Abha Bhattarai

Bunnings' price promise has helped it dominate hardware in Australia.

Bunnings finds it can afford to shun online

ANALYSIS
Madeleine Heffernan

The idea is to cut costs on the expensive 'last-mile of deliveries', when packages are driven to customers' homes.

Walmart asks staff to deliver packages on their way home

Abha Bhattarai

"We see Wesfarmers as the most impacted by Amazon's arrival in Australia," the Morgan Stanley report said.

'Most exposed': Wesfarmers tipped to lose $400m to Amazon

Chocolate may not stay cheap for long, or at least that's what hedge funds are signalling.

Are the days of cheap chocolate coming to an end?

Marvin Perez

Peter Martin

The one thing treasurers must not do

COMMENT
Peter Martin

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Are the wheels really falling off Australia's economy?

ANALYSIS
Myriam Robin

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre.

How Treasury spends billions without hitting key deficit

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Buiter has been forecasting a recession for a couple of years now.

Property market scaremongers need to pipe down

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

The rise of gas and renewable energies puts a limit on coal demand.

Coal isn't coming back, not even with Trump's help

Tim Loh

Mr Ebell said the US would change course on climate policy.

What if Trump pulls US out of Paris climate agreement

explainer
Peter Hannam

"While demand has risen at a rapid pace, iron ore supply has overwhelmed even more," Macquarie Group said, targeting a ...

Iron ore slides below $US56 mark

Jasmine Ng

Department store David Jones kicked off its half yearly clearance sale this week.

Retailers enjoying a day in the sun

Carolyn Cummins

Analysts say Amazon will expose the lack of investment many Australian retailers have put into their online operations.

Amazon to impact online sellers as much as bricks and mortar

Carolyn Cummins

Auyin Property Development's $120 million project at 212-216 Bay Road, Sandringham.

Developers turn to larger apartments

Simon Johanson

Gwen Stefani performs during the Wal-Mart Shareholders Meeting Friday, June 2, 2017, at Bud Walton Arena in ...

Gwen Stefani and a worker pay push: inside Walmart's AGM

Abha Bhattarai

The high-altitude desert where the men of Middle-Earth fought the Orcs in the "Lord of the Rings" movies is a ...

Middle-Earth a battlefield again in NZ water row

Matthew Brockett and Tracy Withers

"Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world," Mr Musk tweeted.

Musk, Iger quit as Trump advisers amid CEO climate fury

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Aston Martin’s next hypercar, the Valkyrie.

Need for speed: The race to create the fastest car in the world

Cars

New Zealand as a backdrop: Founded in 1946 as a shirting business, Rodd & Gunn has repositioned itself as a purveyor of ...

Smoking Gunn: This Kiwi brand is taking over the USA

Men's Style

The non-concessional contribution cap will drop from $180,000 to $100,000 a year, but the three-year bring-forward rule ...

How to maximise your super under rule changes

COMMENT
Noel Whittaker

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

How the funeral industry preys on grieving families

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Greens senator Nick McKim will introduce to parliament legislation aimed at eradicating late payments to small businesses.

Greens introducing small business payments legislation

EXCLUSIVE
Cara Waters

Appearance-related ageism tends to be harshest among the female gender.

Older workers: 'rusty, invisible and threatening'?

COMMENT
James Adonis

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