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iron ore

Boon for shareholders as BHP triples dividend amid profit surge

MINING AND RESOURCES
Darren Gray
43 mins ago

A busy day of earnings ahead.

Markets Live: Earnings deluge

Live
Patrick Commins and Sarah Turner
42 mins ago

Billionaire Andrew Forrest could be counting on a yearly pay cheque of more than half a billion US dollars from 2018 if ...

It's payday for Fortescue shareholders

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Paul O'Malley is stepping down as CEO of BlueScope steel after 10 years at the helm.

Pay coal stations to fix 'catastrophe', says BlueScope boss

MINING AND RESOURCES
Mathew Dunckley

A previously private internet network with speeds at least 10 times faster than the NBN is a potential game-changer in ...

Watchdog has telcos by the tail and will not be letting go

MEDIA & MARKETING
Lucy Battersby

Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group has recorded net profit after tax of $US2.1 billion for fiscal 2017.

'Cracker result' from Fortescue and it's promising more

MINING AND RESOURCES
Darren Gray

Concerns that talcum powder causes ovarian cancer has led to a slew of court cases in the US.

Johnson and Johnson ordered to pay $525m to cancer sufferer

WORLD BUSINESS
Margaret Cronin Fisk and Edvard Pettersson

Market Indices

Updated: August 21, 2017 - 4:35PM

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Updated: August 22, 2017 - 2:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7936

Percentage up/down

0.00% steady
Euro

Price

0.6719

Percentage up/down

0.04% rise
British Pound

Price

0.6155

Percentage up/down

0.10% rise

Updated: August 22, 2017 - 9:30AM

The Murdochs have been among those pushing for the abolition for the two-out-of-three rule.

Has the Murdochs wanting media reform stopped it?

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

APN Outdoor chief executive Richard Herring.

Billboard boss not looking to new career in comedy

Colin Kruger, CBD

Billionaire Andrew Forrest could be counting on a yearly pay cheque of more than half a billion US dollars from 2018 if ...

It's been a healthy payday for Fortescue shareholders

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: BHP results on tap, ASX set for flat start

Sponsored
Chris Weston
1 hr ago

Reporting season is set to keep investors busy again this week.

Markets Live: BlueScope bashed as ASX wilts

Patrick Commins and Sarah Turner

It was a day of dramatic share price moves on the ASX.

ASX wilts as BlueScope shares torched

Patrick Commins

Westpac's Imre Speizer expected the Australian dollar to find support around the 79 US cent mark on Monday.

$A lifts back above US79c

8@eight: Flat start in store for ASX

Sponsored
Chris Weston

Barcelona attack dents travel stocks as global sell-off spreads to Europe

ASX claws into the black

Jessica Sier

Markets Live: ASX ends hectic week higher

Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer

Westpac said stressed assets slipped four basis points to 1.10 per cent of total lending.

Westpac stressed loans dip despite rise in mortgage delinquencies

Xinja's customer innovation director Van Le, chief executive Eric Wilson, and treasurer Verity Froud.

Xinja seeks up to $15 million amid push for start-up banks

Clancy Yeates

The banks are required to "know your customer", but good luck with that when there are millions of customers, many more ...

CBA failure only the tip of a much bigger problem

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Commonwealth Bank CEO Ian Narev. AUSTRAC said it had "quite a lot of engagement" with the bank.

The knowns and unknowns in CBA's money laundering scandal

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Austrac alleges CBA repeatedly breached anti-money laundering laws.

ATM scandal: Austrac says CBA the only offending bank

Clancy Yeates

Domino's delivery driver Casey Salt is paid significantly less than the minimum pay of the award.

Pizza delivery driver takes on Domino's over outstanding millions

EXCLUSIVE
Ben Schneiders

A 15-hour work week sounds too good to be true.

Why we should strive to work 15 hours a week

Andrew Taylor

Julia Gilchrist was born deaf and had to apply for 200 jobs before she landed a stable job with long-term prospects.

Better listening can reduce economic cost of hearing impairment

Anna Patty

Illustration: Simon Bosch

End of the line: Telstra's day of reckoning has arrived

John McDuling

Illustration: Simon Bosch.

'It's two or three years of cock-ups': Has time run out for CBA?

Clancy Yeates

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

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Why Olimpia purchased $1800 in iTunes vouchers to pay for her NBN

Lucy Cormack

Cost of living expenses are placing pressure on Australian consumers, with electricity, health and food expenses topping ...

Financially, Australians are worried about pretty much everything

Lucy Cormack

Laura Day bet $500 she could lose weight.

Why Laura bet herself $500 she could lose weight

James Lemon

Coles' same-store sales growth for the financial year slowed and total revenue has been flat.

Coles staff lose bonuses after earnings dip

Patrick Hatch

Kogan.com founder Ruslan Kogan says Amazon will serve as another channel to sell his private-label products while ...

After mobile success, what will be 'Koganised' next?

Patrick Hatch

Busy life: Jeff Bezos runs the world's biggest retailer, owns The Washington Post and aerospace company Blue Origin.

A day in the life of Amazon's $115b CEO Jeff Bezos

Áine Cain

Bunnings continued to grow in Australia but has run into trouble in the UK and Ireland.

Bunnings UK fail too 'horrible to contemplate'

Patrick Hatch

Not much love lost: Donald Trump (with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in the centre) listens to Amazon boss Jeff Bezos ...

'Great damage': Trump slams Amazon for killing jobs

Giles Turner

Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth all recorded higher home values for the week ending August 13.

Home sales and prices pick up pace

Uschi Schreiber is EYs global vice-chair of markets and will be in Melbourne in late November as a speaker at the C2 ...

Here's one way to get more women promoted

Nassim Khadem

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis.

Hope yet for economy despite dark days

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Airbnb landlord Lynne Segal said the home-sharing website helps her afford to stay in her Newtown terrace.

Housing affordability: Is Airbnb to blame?

Andrew Taylor

iron ore

Boon for shareholders as BHP triples dividend amid profit surge

Darren Gray
43 mins ago

Downstream of the Berrima Coal mine.

Berrima pollution a warning for other mines: scientist

Peter Hannam

Paul O'Malley is stepping down as CEO of BlueScope steel after 10 years at the helm.

Pay coal stations to fix 'catastrophe' -BlueScope

Mathew Dunckley

A local private syndicate has snapped up the only NSW metro asset in the national portfolio of 15 blue-chip retail ...

Good Guys cash in at Caringbah

Carolyn Cummins

Trams on Mount Alexander Road near Ascot Vale.

Pace pounce on Ascot Vale development site

Simon Johanson

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$62,400 a year: Sydney suburbs with highest mortgage repayments revealed

Matt Wade

Eva Echeverria started using J&J's talc powder products when she was 11. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007.

Johnson and Johnson ordered to pay $525m to cancer sufferer

Margaret Cronin Fisk and Edvard Pettersson

Tiki's innocuous bamboo beacons, known primarily for their presence at family barbeques, lush resort grounds and ...

'Minding its own business': Tiki torches tries to move on from Charlottesville

Zach Schonbrun

James Murdoch has derided Trump's response to Charlottesville: 'Standing up to Nazis is essential; there are no good ...

'No good Nazis': James Murdoch takes $1.3m stand against Trump

Maggie Haberman

Taking care of your muscles post-run is integral to maintaining a healthy body.

Treat yourself: The best recovery treatments for runners

Long Run

Brewer Scott Hargrave tests the aroma of their award winning brew.

Real deal: The surfers riding the craft beer wave to the top

Fine Drinks

If the main breadwinner dies or is no longer able to work, how would the family survive?

Prepare for the risk of losing the breadwinner

Mark Bouris

Saving for a car is great, but try not to spend too much.

The best bank account for your kid's savings

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Ali Sultana is a refugee who runs a catering company and helped set up SisterWorks, which provides advice and assistance ...

From refugees to sisters doing it for themselves

Cara Waters

Treasurer Scott Morrison's company tax cut for small business could result in the loss of accumulated tax credits.

Escaping the small business company tax trap

COMMENT
Max Newnham

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