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ASX enjoys best week since March

For long-suffering mining sector investors, it's been a year to savour with not one, but two bull markets.

Shares rallied to their best week since March, in a broad-based advance led by consumer discretionary and utilities.

Opinion

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Productivity push bears the scars of Work Choices

By Phillip Coorey

Scott Morrison's new economic growth talk could have been lifted straight from the Labor script.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 22: Kids look at the David Jones Christmas window displays, on December 22, 2016 in Sydney, ...

Retailers face worst Christmas in a decade

This Christmas is shaping up to be the worst for retailers since the global financial crisis as cash-strapped consumers tighten their purse strings.

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Keep calm and stay invested: JP Morgan

By Patrick Commins

The world is in a rare moment of sustainable synchronised growth and this is why markets are so comfortable taking on more risk, says JP Morgan's Nick Gartside.

'We do now need a serious appointment'

The head of the government's financial system inquiry David Murray has condemned the blackballing of John O'Sullivan as ASIC chairman.

Investment property risk grows, RBA warns

The RBA says the number of investors with five properties grew by 7.5 per cent in one year, and the number of borrowers over 60 has doubled.

Amazon launch gains momentum

Amazon says more than 500 Australian businesses have registered to sell on its Marketplace.

Holden's history drives on as end nears

Classic car owner Chris Duncan in a 1932 Chevrolet Sports Roadster made by Holden Motor Bodies, at Woodville.

'Sydney's slowed faster than expected'

The Reserve Bank warns that large unexpected falls in housing prices could cause highly indebted households to try to ...

Speculators at risk in property downturn

The 87 suburbs where apartments are facing mortgage crackdown by one lender.

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University of Sydney's Zhang wins EY finance award

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How much do you lift? F45 founders seek a spotter

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CS on front foot post Stock; wins Icebreaker mandate

In Melbourne, Rio shrinks to greatness

Canberra misses major culprits in another big four grilling

Challenger boss Brian Benari: “It’s time to change gears.”

Japan is a big opportunity for Aussie fundies

Japan's rapidly ageing population and hunger for yield could provide a big export opportunity for Australian asset managers.

BT Financial chief executive Brad Cooper has defended tiered pricing for life insurance.

Westpac rejects class action claims

Westpac has rejected claims that 40,000 life insurance customers are somehow worse off by offering tiered premiums.

Health insurers feel better now

Health insurers will feel some short-term pain from the biggest shake-up to the industry in decades but the changes will be worth it in the long run.

ACCC to analyse Foxtel-Fox Sports merger

The competition watchdog is set to run the ruler over the merger of Foxtel and Fox Sports.

How much do you lift? F45 founders seek a spotter

Gym chain F45, the fastest growing franchise in 2016, is considering partnering with an outside investor to accelerate its growth.

Investment banks offer ways to bet on a new crisis

Less than a decade after the last financial crisis, investors are showing interest in betting on a fresh banking crisis.

We have been here before. The US economy looked eerily similar in late 1965.

Wall St may be sitting on an inflation time bomb

The edifice of hyper-valued assets across the world is built on one elemental premise: that US inflation is dead. If that proves wrong, the effect on markets will be devastating.

Bernanke wants interest rate shake up

Former US Federal Reserve chair calls for a radical new interest rate framework that would shake up 25-year monetary policy system.

Iron ore price could overshoot on the downside: Russell

The latest reversal could see the price of iron ore overshoot on the downside, in keeping with its volatile year to date.

Bitcoin outperformed all central bank-issued currencies in 2016.

Aussie money boosting Bitcoin's $7000 surge

Australian money is pouring into Bitcoin, which hit another record high on Friday, swelling the market capitalisation to $US160 billion.

Productivity push bears the scars of Work Choices

By Phillip Coorey

Scott Morrison's new economic growth talk could have been lifted straight from the Labor script.

Turnbull hits reset button on energy, climate

By Laura Tingle

Having set up the Finkel Review as a rational process to take the politics out of energy policy, then walking away from it, the Coalition is back at square one.

Politics keeps John O'Sullivan out of ASIC

By Jennifer Hewett

Partisan political attacks from Labor have claimed the proposed career of the man in line to become the next chairman of ASIC.

Suncorp elevates tech hire in executive revamp

By Michael Smith

Former Microsoft boss Pip Marlow's rise is more evidence of the desire by financial services companies to reinvent as technology plays.

Peter Costello says default payments should be allocated to a national safety net administrator.

Super funds puzzled by nationalisation idea

A suggestion from former Coalition treasurer Peter Costello that default super should be nationalised has left the industry scratching its head.

'I'm acutely aware we didn't win the election'

There is widespread anger within senior Labor ranks that an election review has been kept under lock and key.

Health insurance changes get mixed diagnosis

Economists doubt whether plans to allow insurers to offer discounted premiums to young adults will work.

How Canberra plans to cure the health insurance mess

Consumers are being promised savings of hundreds of dollars as part of sweeping changes to private health insurance.

Tree planting soaks up carbon dioxide - but is it enough to help meet Australia's commitments?

PM weighs expanding 'direct action'

The Turnbull government is considering extending its Direct Action climate scheme, as an alternative to the CET.

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Weinstein faces police probe in NY, London

Police in London and New York have said they are looking into complaints involving the disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.

Xi Jinping is being lionised as the one responsible for China's recent successes, including an unswerving ...

Xi propaganda kicks into overdrive

Photographs of other party leaders are much smaller and displayed in less prominent spots.

Smoke from California fires chokes Bay Area

Firefighters struggled to halt the spread of wildfires that have killed at least 31 people in Northern California.

IMF starts a fight by urging 'fair' US tax reform

The White House is annoyed that the IMF is telling it how to share out the pie of the tax cuts now being negotiated in Congress.

"At the time when conflicts continue to tear apart societies across the world, it is deeply regrettable for the United ...

Trump yanks US out of UNESCO citing anti-Israel bias

President Trump has pulled the US out of UNESCO - it pays one fifth the annual budget - accusing it of an anti-Israeli bias.

Tax warning for super funds over $1.6m cap

The Tax Office has issued a warning to self-managed funds trying to cheat the new $1.6 million pension balance cap.

A motivated minority of strata members can take advantage of apathy to push through changes.

Apartment wake-up call

Hidden in the new NSW strata laws is a call to action for every apartment resident in Australia, writes Flat Chat's Jimmy Thomson.

A former QBE vice president and an outside consultant, have been accused of defrauding QBE over two years

QBE has 'very strong' capital adequacy: S&P

For the second time in two months S&P Global Ratings has affirmed its positive rating on QBE, despite a raft of natural disasters putting it on course for a $767m profit hit.