Foreign investors rush to dump Australia stocks

With Australian companies more expensive than regional peers, it makes less sense for global investors to sink money into the ASX.

'Hold the anchovies!' Domino's may be $800m overvalued

Domino's Pizza is more than $800 million overvalued and will not meet its ambitious growth targets because it needs to share more profit with store owners, investment bank Citi says.

'Significantly undertaxed': Big banks targeted with shock new levy

The country's five biggest banks are embroiled in a new tax brawl, after SA's government infuriated banks by imposing a new levy.

Tribunal quashes concerns over $11 billion Tatts-Tabcorp merger

Attempts to impose major restrictions on an $11 billion merger of gaming giants Tabcorp and Tatts on the grounds it may diminish bidding for wagering licenses have been quashed by the competition tribunal.

ATO website crashes again

Another crash and burn of Tax Office's internet systems with just nine days until tax time.

Gas only a 'short bridge' to a low-carbon future, climate group finds

Hopes gas will play the role of a so-called transition fuel towards a low-carbon future are dimming as costs of renewable energy dive and its emissions edge over coal is increasingly questioned, a new report by the Climate Action Tracker argues.

New bank tax takes shine off ASX gains

Shares rebounded strongly from Wednesday's thrashing, while late news of a state-based bank tax undercut solid bank gains.

Government exempts small network owners from 'NBN tax'

The smallest players may not have to pay the NBN Regional Broadband Scheme levy at all until mid-2023.

Firers and hirers: Australia's fastest growing jobs

Australia is shedding jobs for retailers and farmers by the tens of thousands as we become a country of carers and builders.

Markets Live: SA bank levy spoils party

Shares post decent gains for the day, rebounding from yesterday's outsized losses, but news of a state bank levy was a dampener.

ASX winners and losers - a snapshot

The stand out listings traded on the ASX captured at key moments through the day, as indicated by the time stamp in the video.

Packer's Crown slips in Asia

Crown's network of offices from Macau to Indonesia appears to have vanished, leaving the business model of its flagship Sydney resort in question.

Victorian town pulls together to support locked out timber workers

For nine weeks hundreds of families in a small north-east Victorian town have been without a pay check, after the area's biggest employer locked out its entire workforce in April.

ACCC won't oppose Cabcharge buying Yellow Cabs Queensland

Cabcharge is one step closer to aquiring Yellow Cabs in Queensland after the nation's consumer watchdog announced it would not oppose the move.

Luke Foley's solar plan eclipsed by NSW government

The NSW opposition leader Luke Foley has been caught out promising a policy that the Berejiklian government has already begun.

BoE joins global wage inflation hunt

Bank of England admits it is not entirely clear why workers are not getting pay rises.

You have to be over 55 to work for this tech start-up

Sorry, millennials, you need not apply. You're not wanted.

TV streaming wars heat up

Why an increasing number of companies like Facebook and BuzzFeed are producing their own online videos.

Celebrities love it, but coconut oil is as bad as palm oil and butter

A new study has stripped the health halo from coconut oil.

Uber's uncertain future

Despite Travis Kalanick’s resignation, there are plenty of businesses who’ve continued to grow after losing their founder CEO.

Why inflation is dominating the markets

With oil prices falling and inflation out this week in the US, inflation expectations are clearly dominating market debate. This video was produced in commercial partnership between Fairfax Media and IG Markets).

As psychopath CEOs destroy value, nice ones create it

• COMMENT

Psychopaths may have some advantage in climbing the corporate ladder, but once at the top they do shareholders no favours.

A population milestone

Our migration success story has provided rich rewards for our economy and reinvigorated our culture. Michael Pascoe comments.

Six charts that explain why oil is in a bear market

As if investors didn't have enough to fret about, the threat of a disorderly fall in the price of the world's most important commodity is spooking markets.

The great Australian property 'illusion' exposed

This podcast will draw on Fairfax Media's crack team of economics experts to help you get a better understanding of the things that affect your job, your mortgage and your family budget.

Bin Salman rises to Crown Prince as oil falls

There are also concerns about the impact of a change of succession in Saudi Arabia on the oil market, David Pollard reports.

Activist funds target Australia's clubby boardrooms

Disruptive investors are targeting Australian companies, shaking up a corporate culture that has long favoured quiet backroom deals over

Caltex tips profit rise on wider refiner margins

Fuel supplier Caltex Australia says it expects underlying half-yearly net profit to rise as much as 22 per cent as it benefits from higher refiner margins and bigger volumes of premium diesel sales.

Uber's lesson: We need to fix the startup culture

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Overlearning the lesson of Steve Jobs' first fall at Apple - and of founder-led hypersuccesses at Google and Facebook - Silicon Valley's investors created a culture where founders are given carte blanche.