Corporate America brings cash home
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Farewell, Ireland: For years, the likes of Apple and Microsoft have stashed billions of dollars offshore to slash their US tax bills. Now, the tax-code rewrite could throw that into reverse.
Farewell, Ireland: For years, the likes of Apple and Microsoft have stashed billions of dollars offshore to slash their US tax bills. Now, the tax-code rewrite could throw that into reverse.
After several setbacks, Australia's PM Malcolm Turnbull has indicated that a trade pact could be signed by March.
The closely tracked Australian household debt to income ratio has now reached 200 per cent after self-managed super fund debt was counted.
Myer has appointed a new COO and CFO and is stepping up cost cutting after posting an unprecedented fall in sales before Christmas.
Jobs rose by 25,000 in December, more than doubling forecasts, but unemployment has also risen to 5.5 per cent.
The ASX is trading marginally higher, with banks shoring up the benchmark as miners and energy firms lose ground.
Property lenders face a $60 billion refinancing crunch as tens of thousands of fixed term interest only loans taken out at the height of the property boom fall below tough new rules.
Energy management tech company Simble is set to be one of the first tech listings on the ASX in 2018.
BHP has cut its coking coal export target for fiscal 2018 and revealed it will record impairments in its half year financial results.
Woodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman has pointed to improving prices and LNG output through the year.
Prominent auction house Mossgreen has collapsed with $12 million in debts, including almost $6 million owed to vendors who sold paintings via the company.
Rio Tinto has hit more turbulence in Mongolia, with blockades near the Chinese border stopping the Oyu Tolgoi mine from delivering copper to customers.
With the price bouncing downwards, sellers are switching out of digital gold and into the real thing.
The local currency extended its recent run to push above US80¢ for the first time since September.
For the first time in over a decade, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is worth less than its longtime rival, Morgan Stanley, at least in the eyes of equity investors.
The Bank of Canada, as widely expected, lifted the target for its overnight rate to 1.25 per cent.
The latest cryptocurrency price collapse is a reminder of the terrifying speed with which paper profits can be completely wiped out.
The management of Australia's four largest general insurance companies should hang their heads in shame in the wake of the $120 million in refunds paid to customers who bought dodgy insurance policies.
Consumer confidence looks to have made a definitive break from last year's doldrums, but beneath the apparent resilience are warnings signs for the central bank.
Remember when the national argument over pay rates focused on excessive wage hikes? That all seems so last century, or at least so last decade.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has called for a return to conventions that see MPs' families considered off limits in partisan attacks.
The NSW corruption body says cash for access or to influence decision making erodes trust in politics permanently.
Peak lobby group is backing Pauline Hanson's demands the ABC be "fair" and "balanced", taking aim at the broadcaster's recent reports on the Murray-Darling Basin.
South Australian electricity consumers have scored a win after the Federal Court sided with the national energy regulator against a tariff appeal by grid owner SA Power Networks.
Hopes are rising that Canada will soon sign the TPP, with Australia and Japan to discuss trade during PM Malcolm Turnbull's visit to Tokyo on Thursday.
We have a president even more ignorant of America than he is of the rest of the world.
Secretary of State Tillerson says they must stabilise the country even after Islamic State is defeated.
Nursultan Nazarbayev has clung to power for 26 years. But a popular move to change the language from Cyrillic to Latin is being tripped up by the humble apostrophe.
As the Year of the Dog approaches, the level of worry about China's seemingly unsustainable growth pattern is as low as at any time since the financial crisis almost a decade ago.
German investors could lose $200m in the collapse of the British construction firm.
While there are limits to how much you can contribute to super, low tax on earnings is a key advantage writes Sam Henderson who answers your questions on super.
Macquarie says better outlook for private health insurers will temper premium hikes.
Rich Lister lister Travers Duncan holds some of the ASX's best performing stocks, including Sundance Energy, which has staged a comeback of late.
Employers now have more responsibility for the emotional wellbeing of their staff. But they are dealing with changing standards they cannot control.
Plastic seems indispensible as well as indestructible. But there is a political tide moving against it.
Regional universities say local communities will be severely affected by the federal government's freeze on new students.
Former Federation Centres CEO Steven Sewell has been appointed to lead the next growth phase at Abacus Property Group.
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