Curious investors ask the big questions
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The market's turbulence leaves investors wanting to know: is it time to buy their favourite stocks, or take profits and hold cash?
The market's turbulence leaves investors wanting to know: is it time to buy their favourite stocks, or take profits and hold cash?
In times of extreme volatility in financial markets, Chanticleer has always found it worthwhile turning to one of the few voices of reason.
No-one who has taken over as Opposition leader after their party has lost government has gone on to become Prime Minister.
An in-depth investigation into the often controversial buy now pay later industry will be made public in December.
Stocks rose the most in six months as technology shares, which led the longest rout in US stocks in almost two years, bounced back.
MYOB's Tim Reed has survived two private equity buyouts of the accounting software company, and is now facing his third.
AMP chairman David Murray says he regrets his involvement in a once highly promoted fintech now in administration and under investigation by the corporate watchdog after raking in $100 million from investors.
EnergyAustralia chief executive Catherine Tanna has approached federal energy minister Angus Taylor to suggest a tripartite meeting that includes the competition regulator to thrash out a way forward on energy policy.
Responding to the Hayne recommendations next year could be more challenging than his task of uncovering the banks' misconduct in the first place.
Chris Ellison's Mineral Resources lands early-round blow in its legal war with a corporate adviser who took to Twitter to cast doubt on the quality of lithium from the company's Wodgina project in Western Australia.
ANZ boss Shayne Elliott said failings admitted to the royal commission and the lack of progress on remediation will have a "material impact" on executive remuneration.
Independent advisory firm Grant Samuel & Associates has backed the merger of Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment.
Supposedly smart investors argue there is a long-term negative correlation between fixed-rate bonds and equities. That's a fable.
Financial markets are at risk of another ferocious sell-off, the Reserve Bank of Australia has warned, just as investors recover from a bruising 48 hours on Wall Street.
Growing US-China trade friction, sky-high asset prices and algorithmic trading are creating a potentially incendiary mix for global markets, the RBA has warned.
European stocks failed to stage a recovery on Friday, posting their worst week since a market correction last February.
SoftBank edged another step closer to the public listing of its Japanese wireless business, an offering of $38 billion of shares.
We have reached a point where politicians seem very confused about the ideas of advocacy and discussion.
I've spent 20 years attempting to outdo Joe Walsh at peak Joe Walsh, a life in the fast lane with three flat tyres and no church change for the toll booth.
Peter Costello was dead wrong, Scott Morrison has his own story to tell.
Amid the rising global financial and trade risks, Australia is on track to elect a bigger-taxing and bigger-spending Labor government that vows to redistribute national income, rather than grow it.
Jobseekers are being urged to take up work on farms or face losing their welfare payments for up to a month under a new government scheme.
Bill Shorten says Labor will forge ahead with curbing negative gearing and CGT exemptions if it wins the election because housing is still unaffordable
Scott Morrison will change anti-discrimination laws to stop non-state schools being able to expel gay students.
Victorian subsidies for household solar are part of a much bigger problem; Australia's uncoordinated approach to the transition to a lower-carbon energy supply system.
Centre Alliance and the Greens Party are proposing amendments in keeping with Labor policy on foreign workers and investment disputes.
With no end to US trade hostilities, Beijing's leaders are focused on stabilising rather than stimulating the world's second-largest economy.
Western business leaders including Richard Branson and Steve Case distanced themselves from Saudi Arabia over the disappearance and alleged murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The intriguing backstory of how US Congressman Chris Collins became intertwined with an ASX minnow and got hit with an insider trading charge.
Trying to find sanctions-busting cargo transfers on the high seas is like searching for a needle in a haystack, a military chief concedes.
The disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has drawn the powerful leaders of Turkey and Saudi Arabia into a tense battle, each with much to lose.
All this talk of 'late cycle' has put investors in a spin. But what exactly does it mean, and should investors be worried?
Accountants and wealth advisers are waiting to see final legislation on CGT exemptions for expat Australians before telling their clients what to do to.
In a tough environment, landlords need to be flexible to keep the cash coming and avoid vacancies.
The central bank has joined in the condemnation of bank culture, warning that the reputational damage "could impair bank profitability and resilience."
Top CEOs warn that if politicians continue to demonise big business, public confidence will collapse, good policy will be buried and Trump-like protectionist politics will rise in Australia.
A Sydney doctor was frustrated about the profession's attitude to cancer treatment. She decided to do something about it, she tells Lunch with the AFR.
How you walk with other people says something about the culture you live in.
Big Tobacco is reinventing itself for a smoke-free future in developed nations while growing the markets for cigarettes in developing economies.
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