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Banking insiders have calculated that the combination of the $6 billion bank tax, capital adequacy requirements, loan restrictions for investors and a raft of regulation imposed to stave off calls for royal commission, are the equivalent of a 3 percentage point decline in return on equity.
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Banking royal commission

'Why wait': challenge laid down to the banks and Parliament

Here's a way we can get some action from the banks without having to wait.

  • by Adele Ferguson
Victoria's Loy Yang power station: new policy centre aims to put a different light on the sector.
Energy

'We weren't asked': key advisers sidelined on big stick energy laws

  • by Cole Latimer
Optus is expected to soon become the provider of Coles' internet services over the NBN.
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Telecommunications

Optus set to supply Coles with NBN multimillion-dollar deal

  • by Jennifer Duke
The commission said Australia's airports were not abusing their market power.
Aviation

Terminal illness? Nope, review finds airports aren't gouging anyone

  • by Patrick Hatch
NAB CEO Andrew Thorburn heads to work on Tuesday morning.
Banking royal commission

Hayne has different take on NAB's cries of innocence

  • by Sarah Danckert
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Victoria's Loy Yang power station: new policy centre aims to put a different light on the sector.
Energy

'We weren't asked': key advisers sidelined on big stick energy laws

Key organisations responsible for helping keep the lights on say they were scarcely consulted on landmark reforms.

  • by Cole Latimer
Financial markets put the chance of a cut in official interest rates by the Reserve Bank at better than 50 per cent by year's end.
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Interest rates

RBA holds rates at 1.5%, cuts economic growth forecast

Financial markets predict the next move in rates will be down, not up.

  • by Eryk Bagshaw
Shoppers did not go shopping in December, with new figures showing a 0.4 per cent drop in retail activity
Retail

Retail and car sales hit the wall in sign of economy slowdown

  • by Shane Wright
Illustration: Andrew Dyson
Opinion
Banking royal commission

Never fear, Hayne is a new start – and not just for the banks

  • by Ross Gittins
New dwelling approvals were down sharply in December
Property development

Approvals for new homes fall amid property price slump

  • by Matt Wade
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Markets

The ASX soared 2 per cent on Tuesday.
Sharemarket

Major banks' rebound adds $19 billion to ASX

  • by William McInnes
Markets Live

Markets Live: ASX closes at 6005.9

  • by Lucy Battersby and William McInnes
World markets

Tech shares send Wall Street higher

  • by April Joyner

Companies

The Productivity Commission says the caps on plane movements every hour are 'unnecessarily restrictive'.
Airports

Sydney Airport's flight cap deemed 'unnecessarily restrictive'

  • by Matt O'Sullivan and Patrick Hatch
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Telecommunications

Optus set to supply Coles with NBN multimillion-dollar deal

  • by Jennifer Duke
Commercial real estate

Oversupply of childcare centres may be subsiding

  • by Simon Johanson

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Grant Philipp predicts the language of 'coworking' will not keep up with a changing reality.
Startups

Coworking no longer quite so communal

Larger and larger corporate tenants are now moving into the coworking spaces that were once the domain of solo workers.

  • by Nick Bonyhady
Duncan Russell of International Mowers.
Banking royal commission

'It's particularly difficult': Small business relieved that lending not tightened

Small businesses are relieved the banking royal commission's final report did not suggest further restrictions on small business lending.

  • by Cara Waters
Nancy and Lucy Chen, owners of Mr Chen's sample the dumplings at Shark Fin House in Melbourne's China Town ahead of Chinese New Year.
Entrepreneur

Daughters do count: sisters steam folklore to build dumpling dynasty

  • by Cara Waters
Ottoman3 founder Mini Latif.
Finance

'It should be difficult': Optimism despite retail, lending weak spots

  • by Emma Koehn
Carolyn Flanagan giving evidence at the banking royal commission. Mrs Flanagan lost her home after going guarantor on her daughter's small business.
Banking royal commission

No extension of lending protections for small business

  • by Cara Waters

Consumer affairs

Commissioner Kenneth Hayne has made a suite of recommendations to overhaul the superannuation sector.
Banking royal commission

What do the superannuation changes mean for you?

  • by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Aviation

Terminal illness? Nope, review finds airports aren't gouging anyone

  • by Patrick Hatch
Energy

Energy regulator proposes safety net for households struggling with high power bills

  • by Cole Latimer

Workplace

Polling shows any move to cut Sunday penal rates will face strong opposition from electors in key Coalition seats.
City life

Crown Casino cafe fined $250,000 for 'egregious' underpaying of staff

  • by Melissa Iaria
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Do You Earn Enough?

'It's hard and sweaty work': Why Andrew's trade has all but disappeared

  • by Laura Chung
Careers

A violin maker who puts his heart into an old-fashioned craft

  • by Anna Patty

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