Business Day

Bruce Gordon and Lachlan Murdoch were widely believed to be closing in on a deal to buy Ten.

US broadcaster CBS to buy Ten Network

UPDATED
Lucy Battersby

The ASX had a poor start to the week as earnings season winds down.

ASX heads south as banks weigh and Qantas stutters

MARKETS
Sarah Turner and Patrick Commins
1 hr ago

Top guns: Jayne Hrdlicka, Alan Joyce and Gareth Evans.

Qantas in executive overhaul as shares lose altitude

AVIATION
Patrick Hatch

A class action against Treasury Wine has resulted in a settlement.

Treasury settles class action for $49m

BUSINESS
Darren Gray
44 mins ago

Another record profit for Australia's biggest bank

'Trust has been damaged': CBA facing APRA probe

UPDATED
Clancy Yeates
8 mins ago

Maggie Zhou, Australia and New Zealand managing director for Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group.

The Amazon of China already has supermarkets. Now it wants our food

RETAIL
Patrick Hatch

ASX-listed Surfstitch is in voluntary administration but the consumer-facing business is continuing to trade.

The sad, sorry collapse of SurfStitch could be even worse than it looks

Comment
John McDuling

Market Indices

Updated: August 28, 2017 - 2:42PM

Updated: August 28, 2017 - 3:27PM

Updated: August 26, 2017 - 5:15AM

Updated: August 28, 2017 - 3:27PM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7941

Percentage up/down

0.08% rise
Euro

Price

0.6659

Percentage up/down

0.08% rise
British Pound

Price

0.6164

Percentage up/down

0.23% rise

Updated: August 28, 2017 - 3:40PM

ASX-listed Surfstitch is in voluntary administration but the consumer-facing business is continuing to trade.

The sad, sorry collapse of SurfStitch could be even worse than it looks

Comment
John McDuling

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Qantas is about to take another risk - will it pay off?

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Sydney Morning Herald economics editor Ross Gittins. Gittins 091023 Age.Photo Steven Siewert SPECIALX SS091023

Government losing its resistance to rent-seeking businesses

Ross Gittins

Credit Suisse strategist Hasan Tevfik says "the now 4.9 per cent expected increase in investment for this current ...

This is the best reporting season in years

Patrick Commins
1 hr ago

US shares set the market up for a positive session.

Markets Live: Banks drag ASX down

Sarah Turner and Patrick Commins
1 hr ago

Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: ASX set to start week in black

Sponsored
Chris Weston

OPEC's bid to push up prices by restricting output, combined with China's thirst for imported oil, has helped open up a ...

Who's China's new best friend in the oil market? America

Trumponomics gets broad rebuttal from central bankers

US stocks mixed after Yellen's speech

Randall Jensen

Yellen defends post-crisis financial rules

Jeanna Smialek and Craig Torres

Miners help prop up ASX

Sarah Turner and Patrick Commins

CBA chief executive Ian Narev. Emails between senior staff at ASIC show CBA repeatedly asked for a copy of the report ...

ASIC handed CBA advanced copy of CommInsure Report

Mario Christodoulou

CBA continues to turn the screws on interest-only borrowers.

Ambulance chasers' case against CBA weaker than you think

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Mortgage Choice predicts banks will meet the 30 per cent cap on new interest-only lending by the end of next month.

Crackdown on interest-only loans tipped to ease

Clancy Yeates

Chief executive and managing director Geoff Lloyd said the big increase in Perpetual Private's profit was the result of ...

Perpetual lifts dividend after big profit increase from wealth advisory

John Collett

The typical chief executive of an ASX100 company was paid $3.78 million in 2016.

Raking it in: Australia's top 10 paid CEOs

Clancy Yeates

School cleaner Judith Barber from Macksville on the NSW mid-north coast: Her profession can be more dangerous than ...

Cleaning can be more dangerous than construction work

Anna Patty

"This is really ground breaking," Andrew Forrest said. "This is the beginning of the end of modern slavery."

Forrest declares beginning of end of modern slavery

Anna Patty

Unilever, the multinational company that owns Streets, wants to terminate an expired enterprise agreement covering ...

'Industrial blackmail': Paddle Pop maker in bid to cut workers' pay

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

Coldplay on the first of five 2016 Australian shows.

"The worst of them:" ACCC takes Viagogo to court

Lucy Cormack

Fans of Adele have previously lost out to automated ticket scalpers that snag tickets en masse, to sell at inflated prices.

'Not good enough': Warning issued over ticket resale site

Lucy Cormack

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The businesses you complained about most in the past year

Lucy Cormack

Maggie Zhou, Australia and New Zealand managing director for Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group.

The Amazon of China already has supermarkets. Now it wants our food

Patrick Hatch

New-look Warringhah mall where new retailers such as Deus motorcycle cafe have opened.

Scentre launches 100 new retailers to its malls

Carolyn Cummins

ASX-listed Surfstitch is in voluntary administration but the consumer-facing business is continuing to trade.

The sad, sorry collapse of SurfStitch could be even worse than it looks

Comment
John McDuling

The Age, News, 17/08/2017 photo by Justin McManus. Backpacks, workers and communters. Hot-desking and hands-free account ...

Hot-desking and smartphones are driving a backpack boom

Carol Saffer

Hustle after market share and worry about profit later: Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Amazon's latest move is supermarkets' worst nightmare

Shira Ovide and Sarah Halzack

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis.

The problem with property doomsayers

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Brexit secretary David Davis.

British Labour backs EU single market membership during Brexit

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is still in the running to be reappointed by Donald Trump to a new term.

Yellen's Jackson Hole speech more swansong than job audition

Rich Miller and Craig Torres

Illustration: Matt Davidson

Government losing its resistance to rent-seeking businesses

Ross Gittins

Hurricane Harvey as it crossed the Gulf coast on Saturday.

Houston, you have a problem, and it's of your own making

COMMENT
Peter Hannam
16 mins ago

Protests aren't like to let up after the NSW government paid off Shenhua for only part of its exploration licence.

Ex-state agronomists demand axing of Shenhua coal mine

Peter Hannam

Iluka Resources uncovered the suspected bribe payments after it added one of the world's largest Rutile mines to its ...

AFP examining miner over Africa bribery concerns

EXCLUSIVE
Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker

The Australian Pub Fund is selling the Vic on the Park at Addison Road, Enmore.

Singo, Dixon call last drinks at Vic on the Park pub

Carolyn Cummins

Nike Australia has opened three-level flagship store on Sydney's George Street

Nike flagship hits the pace on George Street

Carolyn Cummins

Scentre, which owns 59 Westfield shopping centres across Australia and New Zealand, is preparing for Amazon's push into ...

Westfield malls look to lifestyle, food to fend off Amazon

Carolyn Cummins

Trade minister Steven Ciobo

'Don't put our eggs in one basket' says trade minister

Kirsty Needham
3 mins ago

Hurricane Harvey as it crossed the Gulf coast on Saturday.

Houston, you have a problem, and it's of your own making

COMMENT
Peter Hannam
16 mins ago

Rockport, Texas, after Hurricane Harvey hit.

Hurricane Harvey's second act could drive up economic damage for Texas

Brian Sullivan and Jen Skerritt

While men might think they have theor bedroom moves down pat, science and women disagree.

This one-in-three statistic has men hanging their head in shame

Life on Mars

The Ned in London has become the "it" hotel for stylish travellers. The Vault bar and lounge is a members only section.

Five luxury hotels that are the perfect blend of work and play

First Class

Scott Johnston got his finance approved well before he bought his apartment in Melbourne's Richmond.

Organise finance early this spring property season

John Collett

Superannuation contributions can be used to reduce your capital gains tax liability.

How super contributions can reduce capital gains tax

Noel Whittaker

Adam McAsey, the founder of 8 Degree Projects which operates hospitality venues in Bali, says he loves island life.

Bali born but going global

Cara Waters

Georgina McEncroe has launched ridesharing company Shebah.

Kids on wheels: the Uber alternatives for kids

Kate Jones