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There is business support for introducing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia to force major companies to report on modern ...

Businesses unaware of slavery in supply chains, inquiry told

BUSINESS
Nassim Khadem

Domino's Pizza's new menu will include a new "Premium Range".

Domino's pizzas more expensive in image revamp

RETAIL
Mario Christodoulou
40 mins ago

Rio Tinto Chairman Jan du Plessis at the Rio AGM in Sydney this year.

Analysts forecasting Rio Tinto interim net profit of more than $US4 billion

MINING AND RESOURCES
Darren Gray
1 hr ago

Australia's horticulture industry wants to lift cherry exports by 340 per cent by 2020-21.

Horticulture industry sets ambitious export targets to drive growth

BUSINESS
Darren Gray

The spot price of iron ore surged 7.2 per cent, or $US4.97, to near $US74 a tonne during Tuesday's session.

Don't get too excited the jump in iron ore is a short-term treat

MARKETS
Jessica Sier

Vodafone's mobile fallback aims to save the day when your NBN installation doesn't go according to plan.

NBN says telcos selling too many voice-only speeds

BUSINESS
Lucy Battersby

Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe.

RBA holds rates steady at record low of 1.5 per cent

THE ECONOMY
Peter Martin

Market Indices

Updated: August 1, 2017 - 2:40PM

Updated: August 1, 2017 - 4:09PM

Updated: August 1, 2017 - 5:15AM

Updated: August 1, 2017 - 5:40PM

United States Dollar

Price

0.8002

Percentage up/down

-0.06% fall
Euro

Price

0.6774

Percentage up/down

0.18% rise
British Pound

Price

0.6047

Percentage up/down

-0.20% fall

Updated: August 1, 2017 - 5:50PM

Illustration: John Shakespeare.

Is this former BHP boss returning to the ASX?

EXCLUSIVE
Colin Kruger, CBD

Federal Opposition leader Bill Shorten.

The real story of inequality in Australia

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Singer-songwriter Harry Chapin who wrote Cat's in the Cradle in 1979.

What you'll regret most at the end of your life

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

An uncertain Wall St lead, the start of earnings season, and an RBA meeting have investors guessing.

Markets Live: Profit season's first victims

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer

The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed up 0.9 per cent to 5772 points and the broader All Ordinaries Index lifted 0.8 ...

ASX jumps as earnings season kicks off

Jessica Sier

Snap, the maker of the Snapchat app for sending fun, disappearing photos and videos, has already seen its value decline ...

Snap shares slide as insiders get first chance to sell

Sarah Frier

Chief instigator: Donald Trump

Expect market fireworks if Trump is ever impeached

COMMENT
Matthew Lynn

Oil rally may prompt shale expansion

8@eight: ASX seen flat ahead of RBA decision

Sponsored
Chris Weston

Traders turn more bearish on US dollar

Vesna Poljak

BHP's 5-month high leads ASX gains

Jessica Sier

Consumer credit insurance has long been linked with "poor consumer outcomes", ASIC said.

Banks to curb sales tactics for add-on insurance

Clancy Yeates
1 hr ago

More than half of survey respondents thought paying a chief executive $600,000 was unethical.

CEO pay of $600k is unethical: survey

Clancy Yeates

The bank had "expressed our concerns to the government" about being included in the levy.

Macquarie says bank levy to hit it harder than other banks

Lucy Battersby

In the years after the GFC, Macquarie's Corporate and Asset Finance unit made about a third of its earnings. But its ...

Life after debt? Macquarie's junk lending sputters

Jamie Freed and Jonathan Barrett

Peter Costello, chairman of the Australian Future Fund, says banks need to demonstrate their value to the community.

'Are bankers value for money?' - Costello's challenge

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Tesla boss Elon Musk

What Musk, Branson and 8 other leaders ask job seekers

Rachel Gillett, Áine Cain, Skye Gould

Christine Anu.

Frocks rock: Gender inequality rife in the music industry: new research

Anna Patty

"When you talk about s--t, it's a dream. When you envision it, it's exciting. When you plan it, it's possible. When you ...

What you can do daily, monthly and yearly to be more successful

Richard Feloni

Sexual harassment is rife in Australia's start-up scene.

'He told me I owed him a blow job': Entrepreneur harassed by backer

Cara Waters

Jeff Bezos, Chief executive of Amazon, would fit right in down in Melbourne with that puffer vest.

The Amazon meme that explains 20 years of business

COMMENT
John McDuling

Illustration: Simon Bosch

No Freedom from high costs under Aveo's 'lemon' deals

Adele Ferguson

Chris Pemberton spends his commuting time listening to audio books.

You spend $1142 on your body, but what about your mind?

Lucy Cormack

Iris Lees who died while a resident in an Aveo retirement village.

'Cracking down:' Blitz on retirement villages underway

Lucy Cormack

Pam Cassidy, an Elan resident, says she will resist all attempts to force her onto the 'inferior' NBN.

'They've downgraded our internet': Sydney residents fury at NBN

EXCLUSIVE
Esther Han

Domino's Pizza's new menu will include a new "Premium Range".

Domino's pizzas more expensive in image revamp

Mario Christodoulou
40 mins ago

Jeff Bezos' Amazon has become so powerful researchers have built a Death by Amazon index of companies that it leaves in ...

Death by Amazon: It's a money-printing machine

ANALYSIS
Jeff Sommer

Christmas Gift Guide 2011 - For Sam Young - Apple ipod nano. SMH SUPPLEMENTS Stylist Erin Cunneen and Photo: Domino ...

Apple bins cheap iPods in step towards oblivion

Mark Gurman

Webjet chief executive John Guscic disputes his auditor's reading of the company's accounts.

Webjet shares fall on accounting stoush

Petrina Berry

Research firm Nielsen showed a slight decline in beer penetration across the United States compared to 2016.

Beer sales are down - especially among millennials

Gene Marks

Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe.

RBA holds rates at record low 1.5%

Peter Martin

CoreLogic's Tim Lawless said there was some hint of cooling in the quarterly pace of price growth.

Home prices jump anew in July, testing regulators

If you are in the top tax bracket, Bill Shorten has officially blessed you setting up a discretionary trust so that, on ...

Labor's 'war on the rich' is firing blanks

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Governor Philip Lowe used a recent speech to dismiss the significance of the neutral rate's inclusion in the July minutes.

Australia's rates aren't as stimulatory as RBA thinks

Michael Heath

Rio Tinto Chairman Jan du Plessis at the Rio AGM in Sydney this year.

Analysts forecasting Rio Tinto interim net profit of more than $US4 billion

Darren Gray
1 hr ago

Some OPEC and non-OPEC members will meet on August 7-8 in Abu Dhabi to assess how the group can increase compliance with ...

Oil rally may prompt shale expansion

iron ore

Iron ore surges 7.2pc

Timothy Moore

GPT and its wholesale shopping centre fund now fully own Highpoint.

Besen family sells $680m stake in one of Australia's largest malls

Simon Johanson

The massive "luffing" crane erected above St James Lane that will build the 57-storey tower on the tiny site.

Rising to challenge of building 200m tower on 'netball court'

Clay Lucas

Sales of detached houses fell 5.7 per cent, while apartment sales dropped 10.7 per cent.

New home sales fall to lowest level since 2013

Car cartel: Porsche, Audi, BMW sued in US

Ryan Beene and Kartikay Mehrotra

If anyone thought the prospect of a potential 20 years in prison could tame the former hedge fund manager and pharma ...

'Pharma Bro' calls trial a 'silly witch hunt'

Renae Merle

Five cars were stolen, including a Porsche Cayenne.

Porsche Cayenne SUV caught up in emissions scandal

Birgit Jennen and Rainer Buergin

The Blancpain tribute to Fifty Fathoms Mil-Spec.

10 timeless new watches that will never go out of style

Watches
Bani McSpedden

Shannon Bennett and 12 staff from his Vue de Monde restaurant created the exclusive Stella Artois Sensorium.

How Shannon Bennett helped Stella get its groove back

Food and Drink

Childcare starts to look less expensive when you consider all the financial factors.

The two things most parents get wrong about childcare costs

COMMENT
Melissa Browne

Like any race, it's who's ahead at the finish that matters to investors.

Aussie shares only fifth-best investment over 10 years

John Collett

Small Business Ombudsman Kate Carnell says such enterprises need somewhere to go if they feel aggrieved by their ...

The missing link in CEC's collapse is access to justice

COMMENT
Kate Carnell

There's a limit for depreciation purposes on the cost of cars.

The two tax limits on the value of cars

COMMENT
Max Newnham