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Australia Post should keep its public service roots: Fahour

BUSINESS
Tom McIlroy

Shares look likely to end the week on a soft note.

Markets Live: ASX slumps as banks retreat

Live
Patrick Commins
59 mins ago

Hairdresser Melanie Coombes from Bliss Hair Artists in New Lambton.

Already 'paid peanuts': Anger at bid to trim hairdresser penalty rates

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Anna Patty
1 hr ago

The German government said it had evidence that 22,000 Cayennes sold in Europe with three-litre diesel engines used a ...

Porsche Cayenne SUV caught up in emissions scandal

WORLD BUSINESS

Thi Minh Nguyet Vo of Hong Hai Noodle Bar in the Hunter Connection Food Court was fined for unsafe food storage ...

Sydney noodle bar forced to name and shame itself

CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Lucy Cormack

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

Webjet shares fall on accounting stoush

RETAIL

Twitter has struggled to sustain its closely watched user growth.

Even Trump didn't help Twitter as user growth stalls

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Market Indices

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United States Dollar

Price

0.7973

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British Pound

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Updated: July 28, 2017 - 3:50PM

Nicholas Moore, CEO of Macquarie Bank, has seen his total annual pay climb to $16.5 million.

Macquarie's Renaissance man cooks up a treat for investors

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

A printing error left Napoleon Bonaparte aiming his artillery in the wrong place, a documentary claims.

Every budding Napoleon needs a good early education

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell

Opec and the petro-powers are facing death by electrification.

End of petrol: Oil barons face death by electrification

COMMENT
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The Bank of England unveiled the Sterling Overnight Index Average, or Sonia, in April as a near risk-free alternative to ...

Libor's $US350 trillion headache

Luca Casiraghi, Luca Morreale and Silla Brush

Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: ASX off to flat start; all eyes on Aussie

Sponsored
Chris Weston

The miner said net debt reached $US22.12 billion in the quarter. It wants to reduce net debt to between $US15 billion ...

Vale's net slips on currency, costs

Bank of America Merrill Lynch currency strategist Adarsh Sinha said he "revised up" his AUD/USD forecast, expecting ...

$A retreats on $US rebound

Timothy Moore

Bezos briefly world's wealthiest person

Shelly Hagan and Spencer Soper

Goldman turns bullish on iron ore

Jasmine Ng

Tin rises on smelter shutdown reports

ASX stunned by $A's breakneck rally

Jens Meyer

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

APRA deputy Helen Rowell at the earlier FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne last week.

Super trustees need to do more to put members interests first: regulator

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

AFIC managing director Ross Barker says the bank tax has created a view that governments are not forming policy through ...

AFIC blasts government cash 'grabs'

Mathew Dunckley

Workplace Gender Equality Agency boss Libby Lyons

The workplace problem that will take 50 years to fix

Tom McIlroy

Many people buy lunch to eat at their desk.

Why you eat like your colleagues

COMMENT
Caitlin Fitzsimmons

7-Eleven franchisees are still subject to court action nearly two years after the wage underpayment scandal broke.

7-Eleven owner's 'deliberate disregard' for rights

Sarah Danckert

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

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

Douglas Karr was featured in promotional material for the event, despite never having agreed to appear, while Meg Coffey ...

Consumer watchdog queries cancelled Perth conference

David Allan-Petale
41 mins ago

Thi Minh Nguyet Vo of Hong Hai Noodle Bar in the Hunter Connection Food Court was fined for unsafe food storage ...

Sydney noodle bar forced to name and shame itself

Lucy Cormack

Australian Tax Office is investigating the false tax returns.

'Let's go to Europe!': Tax windfall proved too good to be true for couple

Emily Woods

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
40 mins ago

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

Webjet shares fall on accounting stoush

Petrina Berry

Amazon is known to sacrifice profits for its expansion. The latest earnings are a case in point.

Amazon profit slumps 77 per cent; shares fall

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

Household energy bills are set to rise by an average of $200 annually.

Power bill shock to be felt at nation's cash registers

The figures show that the average Australian claims $3041 of deductions on their tax return.

The 10 jobs that claim the most tax deductions in Australia

Tony Yoo

Perth's house prices are slowly recovering.

Five myths about the housing market busted

IN DEPTH

It looks like RBA governor Philip Lowe needs to find out what it's like in the real world beyond Martin Place.

RBA governor signals ignorance of the real world

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Stephen Koukoulas was thrown by fruit prices.

Egg on faces as forecasters flunk on inflation

Peter Martin

Glencore will be the exclusive marketing agent for Hunter Valley coal sales into Japan, South Korea and all other ...

Glencore signs deals to buy 49% of Hunter Valley coal

James Regan and Barbara Lewis

The miner said net debt reached $US22.12 billion in the quarter. It wants to reduce net debt to between $US15 billion ...

Vale's net slips on currency, costs

Goldman lifted its three-month forecast to $US70 a tonne from $US55, and the year-end target increased by $US5 to $US60. ...

Goldman turns bullish on iron ore

Jasmine Ng

Artist impression of the new $150m Four Points by Sheraton Sydney, Central Park

Jerry Schwartz buys into the Liberman's Four Points Sheraton

Carolyn Cummins

An artist's impression of the Olderfleet development on Collins Street in Melbourne by Mirvac.

Mirvac sells half-share in Olderfleet building to Singapore's Suntec

Simon Johanson

The Chatswood Chase shopping centre in Sydney had a strong uplift in valuation.

Vicinity's $500m buyback better than 'above the odds' buying

Carolyn Cummins

Bill Gates is the latest billionaire to invest in the freight start-up.

World's two richest men back Uber rival

Dina Bass
10 mins ago

Five cars were stolen, including a Porsche Cayenne.

Porsche Cayenne SUV caught up in emissions scandal

Birgit Jennen and Rainer Buergin

Kamyar "Andy" Jahanrakhshan allegedly launched distributed denial of service attacks on news outlets.

FBI and AFP bring down alleged cyber-attacker

Patrick Begley

The Phantom now incorporates cameras that scan the road ahead

Rolls-Royce's $1 million Phantom is a 'new level of Magic Carpet'

Luxury Cars
Toby Hagon

A sense of humour in the workplace can help boost productivity.

The funny thing that will improve your productivity at work

Leadership

Thousands of Australians who worked in Britain could be eligible for British pensions if they top up National Insurance ...

Thousands can secure a cut-price British pension – if they act now

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

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Downside to adding grandson's name to house title

George Cochrane

Chef Matt Wilkinson says three robberies in 18 months were the "nail in the coffin" for cash.

Pope Joan bans cash after three robberies

Kate Jones

Part-time work for school kids means sacrificing other pursuits.

Is it bad for high school students to work?

COMMENT
James Adonis

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