'A paranoid schizophrenic' leaker

• Peter Baker

White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has called chief of staff Reince Priebus "paranoid schizophrenic" leaker.

Westpac launches new lending portal

• James Eyers

Westpac hopes new technology will free up time for its bankers and make customers more sticky.

Shayne Elliott's revolution at ANZ

• opinion
• Christopher Joye

The ANZ boss believes the major banks' bloated cost structures cannot respond to the digital threat. The revolution includes personal interest rates and halving the workforce.

Russia 'cannot put up with this boorishness'

• Andrew Higgins and Matt Flegenheimer

President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Thursday denounced as "illegal" US plans for new sanctions against his country and scorned investigations into the Trump campaign's relations with Russia as political hysteria.

Malcolm Roberts is in trouble

• Phillip Coorey

The federal government will consider referring One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts to the High Court

Libor's $US350 trillion headache

• Luca Casiraghi, Luca Morreale and Silla Brush

UK regulators' decision to abandon the Libor benchmark by the end of 2021 is sowing confusion in the market.

Shell's CEO says his next car will be electric

• Jessica Shankleman, Manus Cranny and Rakteem Katakey

When the boss of Europe's biggest listed oil company says his next car will be electric, it says a lot about the future of fossil fuels.

10 jobs that claim the most tax deductions in Australia

• Tony Yoo

​The 10 jobs that claim the biggest tax deductions in Australia have been revealed through data from the Australian Taxation Office.

Mr President, please cut it out

• opinion
• Kenneth Starr

Donald Trump's attack on US attorney Jeff Sessions is one of the most outrageous – and profoundly misguided – courses of presidential conduct I have witnessed in five decades.

Bankers ditch big pay to chase digital currency riches

• Lulu Yilun Chen and Camila Russo

Dealmakers and financiers are finding a second wind in cryptocurrency. "There’s so much to imagine," an ex-China Renaissance executive says.

Roberts 'confident' about citizenship

• Dan McCulloch

One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts did not receive confirmation he had renounced British citizenship until months after the federal election.

Glencore buys 49pc of Hunter Valley coal

• James Regan and Barbara Lewis

Glencore's share price has edged higher after its Hunter Valley coal deal, expected to be completed in six months, followed a bidding war.

ASX poised to edge lower, Dow at record

• Before the Bell
• Timothy Moore

Local shares are poised to drift lower, paring earlier losses, as Wall Street recovered into the close. ASX futures down 2pts.

Vale's net slips on currency, costs

Vale, the world's largest producer of iron ore, was crimped by a weaker currency and higher output costs in its latest quarter.

Tough times for watch industry

• AFR Magazine
• Bani McSpedden

The slide in demand for watches in major global markets appears to be levelling out. Except in Australia.

Muesli boss accused of murdering female co-director

• Rick Goodman

Melbourne detectives are gathering "extensive" crime scene evidence in the case of an elderly muesli company boss who allegedly murdered his female co-director.

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$A retreats on $US rebound

• Timothy Moore

The Australian dollar retreated back below US80¢ as the greenback recovered from a mostly Fed-induced hammering.

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Scaramucci hints Priebus is leaker

• Peter Baker

The internal rivalries of the White House spilled out into stark public view — all over a leak that was not actually a leak.