Richard Coppleson from Bell Potter, is predicting a bad month in November for oil and the bank stocks

Miners unseat Telstra as dividend stars

The dividend crown was well and truly seized by the miners in 2017-18, new analysis from Bell Potter's Richard Coppleson shows, and it's BHP Billiton which has done the heavy lifting.

Inside the Investa fight club

Blackstone's young gun Chris Tynan and Oxford's property veteran Paul Brundage are slugging it out for the $3.3 billion listed landlord Investa Office Fund.

Freedom Insurance chier operating officer Craig Orton leaves the court.

Direct life insurance on the ropes

The direct insurance business model is in doubt after extraordinary revelations that it sells worthless policies using illegal methods to people who don't understand them.

Baptist pastor Grant Stewart's disabled son no longer has access to a debit card after a call centre operator from ...

'I feel so sorry for the poor customer'

Baptist pastor Grant Stewart was forced to cancel his disabled son's debit card after a call centre operator from Freedom Insurance's boiler room sold him a package of worthless insurance.

ASX snaps eight-session losing streak

Australian shares snapped an eight-session losing streak on Tuesday as banks and Telstra, along with a handful of miners, helped the market take back some losses.

Grain Producers Australia chairman Andrew Weidemann fears Australia's winter crop will be much smaller than the official ...

Crop woe cloud over food, agriculture stocks

ASX-listed food and agribusiness companies face more drought-related headwinds after Grain Producers Australia warned the latest official forecast for the nation's winter crop is over optimistic and may be out by millions of tonnes.

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Jennifer Hewett

The new front in the energy wars

So the National Energy Guarantee is officially pronounced dead on arrival by the Coalition only to be resurrected in some form by a Labor Party that has spent months criticising its failings. Confused? Join the queue.

A slide from the body of the the KPMG alignment report.

KPMG report for ABS 'excessively optimistic'

A controversial KPMG report that allegedly watered down criticism of hundreds of millions of dollars of tech spending at the Australian Bureau of Statistics was "excessively optimistic", according to a senior analyst.

Aged care gets carrot and stick approach

The government is boosting funding for its aged care cop to crack down on dodgy providers and will also bring forward $90 million to help improve the quality of aged care providers.

North Korea has welched on every international deal it has entered.

Why Kim Jong-un is one up on Trump

With a second summit in the offing, the US has nothing to show: North Korea hasn't made a single move towards dismantling its nuclear forces.

Call for Canberra to pressure China over Uighurs

The Morrison government says it has raised concerns with Beijing about the mass detention of Uighur Muslims, but on Tuesday declined to say whether it would consider imposing sanctions over the issue.

Swedish business worried by gridlock

Sweden's most senior business leaders have warned that the country's competitiveness is at risk from an election that has failed to deliver a clear winner and is instead likely to produce a weak minority government.

Cohn accused Donald Trump of having a century-old, nostalgic "Norman Rockwell view of America" that ignored how services ...

Trump treats trade like a game to be won

Time and again Bob Woodward's new book shows Gary Cohn throwing hard facts, analysis and first-year economics arguments at the deaf ears of a 'Flat Earth Society' president.

Personal Finance

Have banks gone too far? The slowdown in interest-only lending is a likely reason why the property market has slowed.

Small lenders set for new round of hikes

HomeStart, which relies on wholesale markets for funding, is the first of the small lenders to increase rates in the wake of hikes by five of the six biggest lenders.

Professor Danny Samson said salary increases will be smaller than they otherwise might have been.

Unis must share the pain, professor says

Universities should brace for higher workloads, lower salary increases and, in cases where student numbers are low, redundancies, according to Melbourne University's Danny Samson.

The pleasure of a well-aimed parting shot

There is much to be said for the polite goodbye. But a speech that completely ignores, say, the speaker's move to a bitter rival or a brutal forced exit has little to recommend it.

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