Business Day

Analysts are split on what direction the Aussie will go next.

Aussie soars to two-year high on RBA minutes

CURRENCIES
Jens Meyer
1 min ago

Traders are sticking to the sidelines ahead of a flood of US earnings later this week.

Markets Live: ASX plunges into sea of red

Live
Jens Meyer
12 mins ago

The RBA board discussed the varied conditions in the established housing and new construction markets.

Jobs, housing remain a worry for Reserve Bank

THE ECONOMY
32 mins ago

Shipments from Australia are now expected at about 330 million metric tons in 2017.

Rio narrows full-year iron ore guidance on weather, rail works

MINING AND RESOURCES

Spotless chairman Garry Hounsell will stay on the board following the restructure.

Spotless throws in towel on $1.2b takeover

BUSINESS
Mathew Dunckley

Choosing the right super fund can have big financial ramifications.

'Choice overload': super options leave us paralysed

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates

Angela was paid $11 per hour at a Korean restaurant after she found the job on an online community website.

'Wage theft on massive scale': Websites offer jobs for $4.20 an hour

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Anna Patty Workplace Editor

Market Indices

Updated: July 18, 2017 - 1:12PM

Updated: July 18, 2017 - 12:58PM

Updated: July 18, 2017 - 7:15AM

Updated: July 18, 2017 - 2:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7893

Percentage up/down

1.15% rise
Euro

Price

0.6846

Percentage up/down

0.69% rise
British Pound

Price

0.6031

Percentage up/down

0.89% rise

Updated: July 18, 2017 - 1:10PM

Amber Harrison has been ordered to pay Seven Network's legal costs.

Seven obliterates CEO's former mistress who is left penniless

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

No plain sailing: Richard Murray.

The fine print in JB Hi-Fi's penalty rates move

CBD
Carolyn Cummins

Medibank is outrageously profitable despite having the industry's highest number of customer complaints.

Medibank hits the PR trail to cover failures

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Legend: Boris Becker, coach of Novak Djokovic, watches from the stands.

'Boom Boom' goes bust: tennis star's 'questionable' investments

Justin Huggler

Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: Shares set for flat start, $A slides

Sponsored
Chris Weston

The company projects it will add 4.4 million new subscribers, compared with the 3.96 million average of analysts' estimates.

Netflix scorches subscriber forecasts

Lucas Shaw

The 30 largest cryptocurrencies have all suffered declines over the past seven days, according to data from ...

Bitcoin breaches $US2000 amid infighting

Cecile Gutscher and Lily Katz

S&P; 500 seen rising 10pc

Sid Verma

Steel output rests on speculative interest

Andy Home

Telstra drags ASX lower

Jessica Sier

RBA watching, waiting on Aussie

Jessica Sier

Medibank is outrageously profitable despite having the industry's highest number of customer complaints.

Medibank hits the PR trail to cover failures

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

ransomware

Global cyber attack could spur $68b in losses: report

Major bank share prices have fallen since the bank tax was announced, but it has not affected wholesale funding costs.

Banks warned tax would lift costs, but did it?

Clancy Yeates

The view in markets is capital requirements are going up, but banks can get there without "big bang" capital raisings.

Banks brace for 'unquestionably strong' rules

Clancy Yeates

If you have a $500,000 mortgage, and you can get a 0.5 per cent reduction in your interest rate, that'll save you ...

The easiest $50,000 you're missing out on

COMMENT
Scott Phillips

Apprentice spray painter Salvatore Acconcio (left) faces the threat of deportation because of changes to a government ...

Spray painters face deportation but panel beaters get to stay

Anna Patty

Knight Frank Australia chief executive officer Stephen Ellis.

Real estate high-flyers face bullying claim

Sarah Danckert

Goldman Sachs has relaxed its dress code for computer engineers in a bid to attract tech talent.

Goldman Sachs relaxes dress code for millennial tech talent

On this week's episode of "It All Adds Up" we hear from unemployed 17 year old Bianca Barnard who is looking for work. ...

The charts to show your boss to get a pay rise

IN DEPTH
Jessica Irvine

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Lendlease's London Elephant leads the way

Latika Bourke

PIC JIM RICE...30.09.05..PIC FOR AFR PIC SHOWS....GENERIC. CINEMA , BOX OFFICE.FILM.MOVIES. SPECIALX 41817 Tickets / ...

Indy cinemas join together to challenge Hollywood

Lucy Battersby

A Melbourne couple were falsely refunded $26,000 from the ATO.

Melbourne couple receive $26,000 from ATO, but it's not theirs

Emily Woods
36 mins ago

Chicken that was intended for sale at Bill's Chicken in Moorebank, in rusty and corroded bins.

Fancy buying your chicken from a rusty trolley?

Lucy Cormack

The company admitted on Friday that an employee had "inappropriately copied and removed some customer information" at ...

Nearly 20,000 Australians caught up in Bupa data breach

Tony Yoo

The two companies are fighting for a piece of the fast-growing sports bra market, which analysts say accounts for more ...

Battle over a $66 sports bra goes to court

Abha Bhattarai
1 hr ago

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 02: Shoppers are seen at the front of David Jones Bourke Street mall Mens store during their ...

Crunch time: DJs looks to food future after sales dip

ANALYSIS
Melissa Singer

Falling consumer confidence resulted in lower footfall, the company said.

DJs blames weak consumer confidence for sales fall

Sign of the times ... the only evidence remaining of the Topshop concession at Myer Melbourne.

Topshop 'disappears' from Myer stores

Melissa Singer

It's easy to spend a tax return and not even notice it, just like you feel hungry after eating white bread.

Coles deepens price war after slicing bread prices

Mathew Dunckley

The RBA board discussed the varied conditions in the established housing and new construction markets.

Jobs, housing remain a worry for RBA

33 mins ago

President Xi Jinping's government is aiming for economic growth of around 6.5 per cent in 2017.

Chinese growth tops forecasts on strong investment, consumption

Elias Glenn and Kevin Yao

Donald Trump has by no means been the economic disaster that many feared.

How 'MAGAnomics' can deliver for the US

COMMENT
Liam Halligan

Janet Yellen told the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday that inflation risks were "two-sided".

US rates conundrum: Fed models say go but data say no

Craig Torres

Shipments from Australia are now expected at about 330 million metric tons in 2017.

Rio narrows full-year iron ore guidance on weather, rail works

Darren Gray

Chinese investors, it seems, are betting the house on more home-building and more steel capacity closures.

Steel output rests on speculative interest

Andy Home

Solar energy is popular with businesses looking to harness renewable power sources.

Somebody's got it wrong on renewables

Mathew Dunckley

The boutique equine-themed M Gallery by Sofitel 4.5-star hotel at William Inglis' new Riverside Stables.

William Inglis & Son to build $140 million complex

Carolyn Cummins

Tower Melbourne's apartment owners have been asked to re-sign their purchase contracts, which have now blown out to 2021.

Hundreds of buyers in limbo as skyscraper fight gets ugly

Simon Johanson

McDonalds at Cremorne is on a busy Sydney road.

Maccas turning its back on shopping centres

Simon Johanson, Madeleine Heffernan

The two companies are fighting for a piece of the fast-growing sports bra market, which analysts say accounts for more ...

Battle over a $66 sports bra goes to court

Abha Bhattarai
1 hr ago

Martin Shkreli told one of accountant Corey Massella's colleagues that the firm "has done an awful job for us and has ...

'Incompetent idiot': Unravelling Pharma Bro's 'chaotic' spending

Netflix reported it signed up more subscribers than expected in the second quarter.

Netflix investors watch happily as money pit blazes

COMMENT
Shira Ovide

Eat now, work out later doesn't quite add up in the calorie game.

Why running to 'burn off' the junk food you eat doesn't work

Fitness

It's a conservative-looking trend that has its roots in rebellion.

The menswear trend inspired by rappers, rebels ... and your dad

Men's Style

Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays Carrie, left, and Kristin Davis, who plays Charlotte, in a scene from <i>Sex and the ...

Cure yourself of the Carrie Complex

Melissa Browne

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The superannuation lobby's field of straw men

COMMENT
John Daley

Dell's Australia and New Zealand boss Angela Fox says there are still obstacles standing in the way of women starting a ...

Sydney trumps Melbourne for female entrepreneurs

Cara Waters

Apart from a business operated through a company, money withdrawn from a business does not result in it being classed as ...

Money withdrawn from a business is not necessarily profit

COMMENT
Max Newnham