Business Day

Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev did not signal any intent to step down on Monday.

'Walk the plank': CBA investors demand action

BANKING AND FINANCE
Clancy Yeates

Catherine Livingstone is facing what could be the biggest test of her corporate career.

Narev not the one with the tough call to make at CBA

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

Communications Minister Mitch Fifield

Potential targets rally ahead of media reform debate

MEDIA & MARKETING
Lucy Battersby

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in April flagged changes to the Citizenship Act and Migration Act, which is being ...

In 'limbo': business groups slam citizenship changes

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Nassim Khadem

Energy sector advocate, Martin Ferguson, a former Labor resources minister and ACTU boss.

Mining industry push for individual work agreements

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Anna Patty

James Young, 41, who suffers from mild sleep apnoea, can't remember the last time he work up feeling refreshed.

Lack of sleep costing economy more than $66 billion

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Anna Patty

Chen Feng, chairman of HNA group, Victorian Premier Denis Napthine (centre) and then Prime Minister Tony Abbott (right) ...

Who really owns this big stake in Virgin?

ANALYSIS
Patrick Hatch

Market Indices

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Updated: August 8, 2017 - 2:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7916

Percentage up/down

-0.20% fall
Euro

Price

0.6714

Percentage up/down

-0.27% fall
British Pound

Price

0.6075

Percentage up/down

-0.03% fall

Updated: August 8, 2017 - 6:19AM

Illustration: John Shakespeare.

Narev not the one with the tough call to make at CBA

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

Boris Johnson misunderstood why Australia has had 26 years of uninterrupted growth.

Higher employment our payoff for avoiding recession

Ross Gittins

Amazon is hiring.

Amazon's Australian invasion: separating hype from reality

COMMENT
John McDuling

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett eats ice cream at a Dairy Queen diner in Omaha, Neb., as he chats with Berkshire ...

Why $US100 billion in cash is bad news for Warren Buffett

Noah Buhayar
2 mins ago

Elon Musk-led Tesla is counting on the Model 3, its least pricey car, to become a profitable, mass market manufacturer ...

Tesla selling $US1.5b in junk bonds

22 mins ago

More records on Wall St sets the scene for an upbeat ASX start.

Markets Live: CBA joins ASX rally

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer

Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: Shares set for positive start

Sponsored
Chris Weston

China seeks to shed light on its shadow banking system

Patrick Commins

Buffett's insurers slump, dragging down Berkshire's earnings

Noah Buhayar

Dow ends at eighth record high

US data bolsters Fed tightening case

CBA chief executive Ian Narev says the Austrac action against the bank shows a regulator being strong.

Pressure for royal commission rises on CBA laundering scandal

Clancy Yeates

The bank's chief executive, Ian Narev, who will present the bank's results next week, wrote to staff on Friday, saying ...

Eleven already jailed over CBA money laundering syndicates

Michael Evans

Young people shouldn't put money into super if they want to access it before their 60s. Illustration: Simon Letch

Find super boring? Follow this checklist, then relax

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Ian Narev, CEO of CBA, will face tough questions at the company's result.

Growing calls for a bank royal commission

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

CBA shares slumped on Friday as the bank faces legal action for breaking anti-money laundering rules.

CBA shares slump as bank vows to fight Austrac claims

Clancy Yeates

Ashleigh Mounser was underpaid in numerous jobs in Wollongong.

Plan to name and shame businesses that rip off workers

EXPLAINED
Anna Patty

Raya Allan juggles three different jobs to make ends meet

Juggling two or three jobs to make ends meet

Anna Patty

Khalili

‘It makes you feel not valued’: How wage cuts broke Sahar

Anna Patty

Austrac alleges nearly $9 billion in cash was deposited through CBA's new ATMs before it conducted any assessment of the ...

How drug syndicates 'laundered' millions via CommBank

Michael Evans

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a man with a plan.

Tesla is burning through cash, and (some) investors love it

COMMENT
John McDuling

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

An error at a data centre has left some Woolworths customers with incorrect transactions on their accounts.

Woolworths error sees customers charged again

Lucy Cormack

In NSW, the government charges companies $138 a tonne to dispose their waste. In Queensland, it costs nothing.

Other states dump 1 million tonnes of rubbish in Queensland

Rachel Clun

Power bills continue to grow.

Life's too short: Why we pay the mug's power bill

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Amazon is hiring.

Amazon's Australian invasion: separating hype from reality

COMMENT
John McDuling

Gap stores will be closed within the next six months.

Gap stores to close in Australia after Oroton pulls pin

Patrick Hatch

Outgoing orders at Amazon.

The five things that save businesses from Amazon's grip

Julie Verhage

Rocco Braeuniger has been appointed as Amazon's Australian country manager.

The man leading Amazon's Australian invasion

Patrick Hatch

A Perth-based investor has snapped up a property leased to JB Hi-Fi at the Joondalup Large Format Retail precinct in WA ...

Battered retail stocks become contrarians' choice

Matthew Burgess and Vivek Shankar

The Senate economics references committee is holding an inquiry into foreign bribery.

Australia a 'soft touch' for foreign bribery

Nassim Khadem

Recent data points to jobs growth of 15,000 to 20,000 a month in the near term, ANZ's David Plank says.

Job ads climb for fifth month to highest since 2011

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis.

Crisis in high school economics a threat to national wellbeing

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

The ATO's services have been continually taken offline for hours, proving especially frustrating for Australians looking ...

Our IT systems aren't bound by commercial service standards, says ATO

Nassim Khadem

Smart meters offer opportunities for better informed decisions.

'Find a way' - Origin boss in plea to Canberra on energy

Mathew Dunckley

Roughly half of us haven't switched electricity suppliers in the past five years, and a good many have never switched.

When it comes to electricity, the joke's on us

COMMENT
Peter Martin

Power bills continue to grow.

Life's too short: Why we pay the mug's power bill

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

The lobby of the Larwill Studio boutique hotel in northern Melbourne, dedicated to Australian artist David Larwill.

Art Series Hotels sell to Mantra for $52m

Simon Johanson

Luxury appeal: Homes in prime locations in Sydney command high prices.

Luxury homes high on the list for expat investors

Carolyn Cummins

lend lease

Building giant tripped up as results turn up on Google

Simon Johanson

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. France and Germany are leading an EU push to force tech giants like Amazon to pay more taxes in ...

France and Germany in tax crackdown on US tech giants

Martin Shkreli arrives at federal court in New York, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Jurors are starting their fifth day of ...

'Pharma bro' Shkreli convicted of securities fraud

US President Donald Trump.

Trump goes to war against Spanish olives

Agnieszka de Sousa and Alan Bjerga

Lekker's Damsko was inspired by Dutch canal boats.

Dutch bike brand Lekker just released the ultimate party boat

Handsome Things

Tom Ford has released a highly succesful line of male oriented products including concealers and bronzers.

Are you man enough for this controversial grooming trend?

Grooming

Pre-existing conditions make buying adequate life insurance and income protection prohibitively expensive.

I sought help for mental health. Now insurers are exacting revenge

COMMENT
Georgina Dent

Medical bills in the US can be steep, so ensure you have adequate travel insurance.

The $693 hotel bill that stuffed up my unrelated insurance claim

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Brewer James O'Shea, entrepreneur Michael Burton and James Ruel.

Pub with no beer? Not any more

Cara Waters

Kimberley Turner founded Aerosafe Risk Management when she was 18.

Risky business: from Black Hawk down to rising star

Cara Waters

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