Business Day

The surge in power bills in recent years shows no sign of slowing.

'Pinch year': Power price surge set to knock out smaller energy retailers

ENERGY
Brian Robins

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Markets Live: UK polls smash pound

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer
2 mins ago

A pelican mired in oil from BP's Gulf of Mexico spill.

Seven years after Deepwater Horizon, BP's credit rating lifted

ENERGY
1 hr ago

Stockland is investing in a national roll out of Tesla Destination Chargers across 31 shopping centres from Cairns to ...

Electric car chargers to be rolled out at shopping centres

INNOVATION
Carolyn Cummins

Exit polls predicted gains for Britain's Labour party and a possible hung parliament.

Pound tumbles as UK exit poll unnerves investors

CURRENCIES
Myriam Robin
1 hr ago

Banks tend to offer the best mortgage deals to new customers or those who refinance or threaten to leave.

'You're kidding' - how Aussies banks mistreat customers

BANKING AND FINANCE
Clancy Yeates

Professor Ian Ramsay has reservations about a royal commission.

Compensation scheme for financial victims will 'restore trust'

BANKING AND FINANCE
Georgia Wilkins

Market Indices

Updated: June 9, 2017 - 10:07AM

Updated: June 8, 2017 - 6:09PM

Updated: June 9, 2017 - 7:15AM

Updated: June 9, 2017 - 2:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7528

Percentage up/down

-0.21% fall
Euro

Price

0.6729

Percentage up/down

0.01% rise
British Pound

Price

0.5917

Percentage up/down

1.60% rise

Updated: June 9, 2017 - 9:59AM

Longevity, loyalty and leadership

Longevity, loyalty and leadership: the rules of business management

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell

Illustration John Shakespeare

So many lawsuits, so little money

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

Sydney householders sitting very tight – we don’t want to sell

Sydney householders sitting very tight – we don’t want to sell

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: Exit poll rocks markets

Sponsored
Chris Weston
1 hr ago

The testimony of former FBI director James Comey barely moved markets.

Wall Street finishes flat after Comey testimony

The local currency has fallen a long way since it bought more than $US1 in 2015, but dynamics are at play that could ...

Iron ore, debt could send Aussie back to US50¢

Patrick Commins

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ASX snaps losing streak as CSL soars

Jens Meyer

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

Landon Thomas Jr

Markets Live: Banks find some buyers

Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer

Service spending a silver lining in GDP figures

Myriam Robin

Investors should be 'crossing their fingers' as risk rises

John Gittelsohn and Erik Schatzker

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

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

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

Andrew Taylor

457

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

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

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

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

Consumers are being urged to switch and save on energy plans.

Families should brace for $660 electricity bill increase

Esther Han

The surge in power bills in recent years shows no sign of slowing.

'Pinch year': Power price surge set to knock out smaller energy retailers

Brian Robins

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

New Coca-Cola South Pacific president Roberto Mercade says free samples of Coca-Cola No Sugar will be distributed to two ...

Coke ditches Zero looks to No Sugar hero

Madeleine Heffernan

Coles has reduced its range by 5 per cent this year to clear space for new products, reduce duplication and make the ...

Coles admits most of its workforce underpaid

Ben Schneiders, Royce Millar & Nick Toscano

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

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

Trade surplus walloped by Cyclone Debbie

UPDATED

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

A pelican mired in oil from BP's Gulf of Mexico spill.

Seven years after oil spill, BP's rating lifted

Ron Bousso
1 hr ago

Boart Longyear reiterated that the driller is faced with potential receivership if the recapitalisation proposal fails.

Litigation may derail troubled Boart Longyear revamp

Brian Robins

The surge in power bills in recent years shows no sign of slowing.

'Pinch year': Power price surge set to knock out smaller energy retailers

Brian Robins

Airbnb: is hosting more trouble than it's worth?

Push to slug Airbnb operators for wear and tear costs

Aisha Dow

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

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

No matter what you see on the runway, shorts in the office remain a contentious issue.

Career suicide: What you should never wear on casual Fridays

Men's Style

These not-so-basic white shirts that will reinvigorate your appreciation for the traditional staple.

One simple item that makes a big difference to your wardrobe

Men's Style

The Acorns app rounds up each purchase you make and stores it in an investment portfolio for you.

Noel Whittaker's verdict after a year of using micro-investment app Acorns

Noel Whittaker

Active funds have higher fees, so they need to consistently outperform the market to earn their keep.

Index funds v actively managed funds

Daryl Dixon

Do you have expectations of lunches, drinks and water cooler gossip?

Friendships at work: are you indifferent?

COMMENT
James Adonis

Gen George, founder of casual work start-up OneShift.

Gen George sells OneShift to Programmed

Cara Waters

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