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For all the talk of a beaten consumer, various service sectors contributed some of the most robust performances in ...

Service spending a silver lining in GDP figures

MARKETS
Myriam Robin
3 mins ago

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Markets Live: Banks find some buyers

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer
41 mins ago

457

One step forward, two back: How to rort 457 visas

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Facebook and Google pressure newsrooms' bottom lines by soaking up online ad revenue.

'Like riding a missile': FAANG stocks build euphoria, and jitters

MARKETS

Slater and Gordon

Slater and Gordon facing more legal action

BUSINESS

Exports fell 8 per cent in April, while imports were down 1 per cent.

Australian dollar weakens as trade surplus falls

THE ECONOMY

For more than two years, GPS made a calculated attempt to avoid paying minimum award rates of pay.

GPS cleaning company treated vulnerable employees as 'slaves': court

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Andrew Taylor

Market Indices

Updated: June 8, 2017 - 1:47PM

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Updated: June 8, 2017 - 2:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7549

Percentage up/down

-0.03% fall
Euro

Price

0.6708

Percentage up/down

-0.03% fall
British Pound

Price

0.5828

Percentage up/down

-0.02% fall

Updated: June 8, 2017 - 1:40PM

The downside of the soaring Qantas share price is that Joyce missed a lot.

Qantas shares flying, but Joyce hit exit button early

Colin Kruger, CBD

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Shopping strips feel the pain of weak wage growth

ANALYSIS
Clancy Yeates

Coles

The dreams and nightmares in the supermarket price war

ANALYSIS
Elizabeth Knight

"Instead of buying low and selling high, you're buying high and crossing your fingers.": Bill Gross.

Investors should be 'crossing their fingers' as risk rises

John Gittelsohn and Erik Schatzker

Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: Soggy start in store for ASX

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Chris Weston

The Australian dollar got a boost after the RBA reaffirmed its expectations of strengthening economic growth.

'Disaster averted': Aussie hits one-month high on GDP data

Myriam Robin

The ASX weathered another rough session on Wednesday.

Wesfarmers slide keeps ASX in red

Jens Meyer and Patrick Commins

Markets Live: Shares rebound as GDP hits mark

Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer

Low ball bid for troubled Vocus as KKR acts

Brian Robins

The hidden dangers of some passive funds

Myriam Robin

Once-richest man in India is losing $24 million a day

Ari Altstedter

Former BBY executive chairman Glenn Rosewall is facing a $9.3 million claim from St George Bank.

St George makes $9.3 million claim against Glenn Rosewall

Clancy Yeates

David Coleman, chairman of the House of Representatives committee on economics, says the fact no senior executives have ...

No bank execs fired 'an untenable situation': Bank inquiry chair

Clancy Yeates

Opportunities: National Australia Bank chairman Ken Henry and NAB CEO Andrew Thorburn.

NAB sees 'extraordinary' opportunity in regions

EXCLUSIVE
Clancy Yeates

Quiet

What banks aren't telling their shareholders in tax backlash

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates

The bank says new features on its app will tell customers what exchange rate they will get if they pay on their Visa ...

NAB to reveal realtime currency costs to travellers

Clancy Yeates

The decision will anger the nation's union movement, which has been fighting for a $45-a-week rise to the minimum wage.

Minimum wage to rise by $22 a week

UPDATED
Nick Toscano

Paul Joyner said he is forced to work for free for Aldi to pay off "negative hours" accumulated because he was not been ...

'This is in effect wage theft': The problem of working at Aldi

Andrew Taylor

The penalty rates decision will anger Australia's union movement, which has invested heavily in a massive campaign to ...

Full cuts to Sunday penalty rates delayed until 2020

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

Westpac has advised customers that may have entered information into the phishing page to contact it immediately.

'RESOLVE IT HERE': Westpac customers targeted in email scam

Tony Yoo

Ausgrid has been fined for not warning customers using life-support machines at home about power cuts.

Ausgrid fined $100,000 after endangering lives

Esther Han

Creative Gourmet frozen berries were recalled in 2015 following a hepatitis A outbreak.

Hep A frozen berries from same farm and plant as the 2015 recalled fruit

EXCLUSIVE
Esther Han

Coles

The dreams and nightmares in the supermarket price war

ANALYSIS
Elizabeth Knight

Coles was fined $2.5 million for selling bread branded as freshly baked when it was prepared and frozen in Europe.

'Crazy': Coles says grocery prices need to be cheaper

RFG's shares tumbled 11.3 per cent on Monday after UBS, which has a "sell" rating on RFG, sliced its price target for ...

'No insight': Brumby's owner slams investment bank report

Madeleine Heffernan

Paul Joyner said he is forced to work for free for Aldi to pay off "negative hours" accumulated because he was not been ...

'This is in effect wage theft': The problem of working at Aldi

Andrew Taylor

Catch Group founders Gabby & Hezi Leibovich are taking on Amazon.

CatchOfTheDay rebrands as it gets ready for Amazon

Exports fell 8 per cent in April, while imports were down 1 per cent.

Australian dollar weakens as trade surplus falls

Treasurer Scott Morrison also called for peace, saying the national interest was at stake.

Concerns grow about house prices slide as economic growth sinks

Peter Martin

Treasurer Scott Morrison is expected to address the latest figures on Wednesday morning.

Australia breaks GDP record

Eryk Bagshaw

Treasurer Scott Morrison

Australia stumbles to economic record as cautious Reserve Bank leaves rates on hold

Eryk Bagshaw

Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel will deliver his electricity market report on Friday.

Cutting through the haze of emission schemes

COMMENT
Peter Martin

President Donald Trump followed through with his pledge to leave the Paris accord.

Investors should swipe at companies, not Trump

COMMENT
Julien Vincent

No bull: Australians strongly support more renewable energy.

'Somewhat surprising' survey on Australian attitudes to renewables

Peter Hannam

Myer is nearly halfway through a five-year turnaround strategy to fix its ailing bottom line.

Australia's department store merry-go-round

Nicole Lindsay

A new report says Sydney CBD's core precinct is set to benefit further from an overall repositioning as it takes on 51 ...

Investors pump $14 billion in sales across office sector

Carolyn Cummins

Stockland has started building the Coopers Paddock Logistics Park, a $80 million office and warehouse estate in Warwick ...

Frasers Logistics, Stockland eye industrial assets for growth

Carolyn Cummins

Raymond Dalio, billionaire and founder of Bridgewater Associates LP, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at ...

Hedge fund giant fears Trump 'effects on most of us'

Katia Porzecanski

It's been a rough two years for Indian pharma tycoon Dilip Shanghvi.

Once-richest man in India is losing $24 million a day

Ari Altstedter

Overfished: Sea cucumbers are a delicacy in China.

Sea cucumbers are making life hard for diesel traders

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Illustration / Shane ARCHBOLD (NZL)/ Crash / Bike /
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Crash test: Who is most often at fault when cars and bikes collide?

On Your Bike

One cup of coffee an hour before exercise may be enough to ease and improve your subsequent workout.

The legal drug that will help you smash your workout goals

Fitness

Illustration: Simon Letch

Is it worth borrowing for aged care?

Noel Whittaker

Electricity costs have risen by 124 per cent over the past 10 years.

Price hikes threaten to take shine off golden years

John Collett

Economists are in a lather trying to explain low wage growth.

Nine different reasons for record-low wages growth

COMMENT
Tony Featherstone

Art Beavis has no plans to retire at 78.

Three benefits of hiring older workers

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