Business Day

Year 9 students from Methodist Ladies' College move the solar panels to get maximun sun on a cloudy day at Marshmead.

Australian towns going off the grid

THE ECONOMY
Cole Latimer

The costs of climate change impacts, and the transformation to a low-carbon economy, present an array of financial risks ...

Investors, now we have your attention on climate change

COMMENT
Julien Vincent

From a current median price of $895,342, a 10 per cent decline would equate to about $90,000.

For most, predicted downturn will be little more than a blip

ANALYSIS
Jennifer Duke

Sanjeev Gupta

Glencore sells Australian coal mine to Gupta's GFG Alliance

MINING AND RESOURCES

The non-cash reduction in its income tax expense as at December 31 would be due to a lower deferred tax liability, ...

Brambles flags $200m one-off fillip from Trump cuts

BUSINESS

Australian shares started the first trading session of 2018 on the backfoot.

Soft start to 2018 for ASX

MARKETS
Sarah Turner

House prices fall for the first time in nearly three years.

Sydney and Melbourne home prices fall, more declines tipped for 2018

THE ECONOMY
Jennifer Duke

Market Indices

Updated: January 2, 2018 - 1:41PM

Updated: January 2, 2018 - 4:09PM

Updated: January 2, 2018 - 10:51PM

Updated: January 2, 2018 - 10:54PM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7821

Percentage up/down

0.20% rise
Euro

Price

0.6497

Percentage up/down

-0.03% fall
British Pound

Price

0.5774

Percentage up/down

-0.12% fall

Updated: January 2, 2018 - 11:00PM

Primary education needs to be reworked to cultivate an interest in maths.

The case for making maths mandatory in high school

Kim Wenn

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Australia's least-competitive industries earning 'super-profits'

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Bitcoin is a true investment mania.

Why bitcoin investors are like stamp collectors

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Hyperion Asset Management MD Tim Samway: ''We are patient long-term investors.''

How Hyperion won big on Facebook and Amazon

Sarah Turner

The year isn't expected to start with fireworks for the ASX.

Markets Live: ASX sags into 2018

Sarah Turner

Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: Weak start tipped for first day's trading

Sponsored

Ripple's rally has far outpaced the gains of ether and bitcoin, which have gained roughly 9000 and 1400 per cent ...

Ripple's 53% surge makes it second-biggest cryptocurrency

Kailey Leinz

'Rude awakening': Plunge in volatility stokes fears of share crash

Tom Rees

Kidnappers free blockchain expert Pavel Lerner after receiving $US1 million ransom in bitcoin

Why bitcoin investors are like stamp collectors

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Motley Fool: 2017 a year to remember for investors

ANALYSIS
Scott Phillips

Simon Letch 3rd Jan Opinion SMH?

Faster electronic payments will transform our lives

COMMENT
Caitlin Fitzsimmons

What is a good resolution to aim for in 2018?

Five New Year’s resolutions to get your finances in fighting shape

Olivia Maragna

The use of cash for small payments is tipped to decline further once the new payments platform is being widely used.

Cash payment decline tipped to gather pace in 2018

Clancy Yeates

Social media provides a trove of data about customers, including information on their trustworthiness.

How your social media account could help you get a loan

Clancy Yeates

Australia's banks have to " 'crack the code' on how the industry can be better respected within the broader community", ...

What's chipping away at the big four's dominance?

Clancy Yeates

ASBESTOS PROTEST CANB 041005 NEWS Pic By Erin Jonasson.. almost 100 Protestors from many unions, including the CFMEU & ...

CFMEU blasted for using members' money to pay millions in fines

Nick Toscano

Shane Vining-Brown, a cleaner for St Vincent de Paul Society NSW, says he is devastated by news he could lose his job so ...

Cleaners lose jobs after Vinnies ditches contractor

Mario Christodoulou

Fair Work Commission president Iain Ross. The workplace tribunal has been criticised for approving sub-standard wage deals.

Secret Woolies deal with Shoppies union cuts wages

EXCLUSIVE
Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar

Social media provides a trove of data about customers, including information on their trustworthiness.

How your social media account could help you get a loan

Clancy Yeates

More than 190,000 households in Sydney, and 185,000 in Melbourne, said they didn't have access to the internet through ...

Blackout suburbs: where homes have no internet connection

Jennifer Duke

Australia's banks have to " 'crack the code' on how the industry can be better respected within the broader community", ...

What's chipping away at the big four's dominance?

Clancy Yeates

Bupa says comparison websites are a "significant cost on the system".

The $200 million reason why health insurance premiums are going up and up

Esther Han

Aussie motorists are paying 10¢ a litre on average more when they fill up with petrol compared with this time last year ...

Aussie dollar eases local petrol pump pain

Matt Dooley managed to get internet connected to his house after police stepped in.

Police negotiate NBN bundle for Telstra sit-in protester

William McInnes, Kate Aubusson

Large companies would have to disclose where their products are made under the proposed laws.

Change is coming, but some retailers aren't ready for slavery laws

Patrick Hatch

Workers at Domino's will get to vote on the new deal from January 2.

Domino's workers to vote on new wage deal

Sarah Danckert

Steinhoff Asia Pacific operates a number of retail chains in Australia, including the Freedom furniture chain, the ...

Steinhoff appoints advisers, but says sales are strong

James Thomson

Steinhoff Asia Pacific owns brands including Fantastic Furniture, Freedom, Snooze and Harris Scarfe.

Fantastic Furniture owner hires advisers

Simone Ziaziaris

The move sets at rest speculation over the company's financial health after its shares dived nearly 50 per cent ...

Retail Food Group shares surge on debt deal

Year 9 students from Methodist Ladies' College move the solar panels to get maximun sun on a cloudy day at Marshmead.

Australian towns going off the grid

Cole Latimer

From a current median price of $895,342, a 10 per cent decline would equate to about $90,000.

For most, predicted downturn will be little more than a blip

ANALYSIS
Jennifer Duke

Respondents said they continued to encounter higher energy costs, with some costs being passed on to customers.

Manufacturing growth tipped to continue this year

Christian Edwards

Aussie motorists are paying 10¢ a litre on average more when they fill up with petrol compared with this time last year ...

Aussie dollar eases local petrol pump pain

Sanjeev Gupta

Glencore sells Australian coal mine to Gupta's GFG Alliance

Gina Rinehart, worth $US14.9 billion, is the wealthiest Australian and the 85th richest person in the world, according ...

Rinehart adds $3.5 billion to her fortune in past year

Shares in BHP hit a 31-month high on Friday.

Investors add BHP shares to their Christmas stockings

Darren Gray

AccorHotels to open new $130m MGallery by Sofitel hotel at Chadstone mall, Melbourne.

Chadstone welcomes new $130m Sofitel hotel to its expanding mall

Carolyn Cummins

The Lowy's move has sparked debate.

Does Lowy's deal signal that shopping malls have had their day?

ANALYSIS
Carolyn Cummins

Frank Lowy, pictured with son Steven, and then business partner John Saunders built up their Westfield shopping centre ...

End of an era: Westfield accepts $32.8b offer

UPDATED
Carolyn Cummins

Rupert Murdoch had built an empire by divining where media was headed, and the landscape ahead troubled him, sources said.

With Disney deal looming, Murdoch's empire is fractured

Brooks Barnes, Sydney Ember

President Donald Trump places his hand over the tax bill before signing it in the Oval Office of the White House, ...

America's new tax laws may be detrimental to workers

NOAM SCHEIBER, BEN CASSELMAN

Manufacturing and export businesses are thriving in Vietnamese cities such as Hanoi.

'Made in Vietnam' export boom defies US trade threats

Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen

Does the cost outweigh the benefits of living in Sydney?

Sorry, but you couldn't pay me to move to Sydney

COMMENT
Sylvia Pennington

Change your body with just a few small life adjustments.

1000 calorie project: How you can get lean in less than a month

Boot Camp
Michael Jarosky

A hobby such as playing the guitar can form the basis of a 'side hustle'.

Boost your income with a 'side hustle'

Paul Benson

Tax considerations mean a separated couple may be better off with a divorce and financial settlement.

How does capital gains tax work for a separated couple?

George Cochrane

The reality is a four-hour work week is unlikely to happen if you start your own business.

The problem with the entrepreneurial dream

COMMENT
James Adonis

Chris Sidwa and Andrew Fineran, co-Founders of local craft-beer business Batch Brewing Co, have managed to stay strong ...

The local Sydney brewery thriving despite 'Big-Beer' buy-ups

Justine Landis-Hanley