Banks told to pass on RBA rate cut
Josh Frydenberg has told the big four banks to pass on in full any interest rate cut to help to stimulate the economy from what official figures could show is the lowest annual growth rate since 2009.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Brexit hits Australian stocks
Three years after the UK voted to shed its EU membership, financial markets are going through another wave of Brexit paranoia with a dozen Australian stocks suffering share price falls.
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- China
Solar deal marks 'new era' in China co-operation
British billionaire Sanjeev Gupta says Australia and China should rethink their economic relationship to focus on building industries instead of taking resources away.
Trump meets queen, feuds with London mayor
The US president has begun his state visit to Britain by visiting the queen and insulting the mayor of London as protests loom against him.
ASX poised to rise, RBA decision pending
Australian shares are poised to open higher, with a focus on this afternoon's cash rate setting and this evening's speech by RBA governor Philip Lowe.
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- Funding
US investors target Aussie start-ups
Two US venture capitalists and a former Goldman Sachs banker have closed $60 million of a planned $120 million fund, as they bet on Australia matching Israel for tech success.
Has the Sydney market hit bottom?
Sydney's property market grew in the 10 days after the federal election, signalling a possible turnaround in an 18-month property slump.
Business
- Opinion
- Gas crisis
Queensland's gas maverick returns to where it all started
Richard Cottee lands another opportunity to help mitigate the east coast gas crisis.
'Completely false': Toll denies allegations over strategy
The Toll Group has closed an internal investigation into a series of anonymous allegations, including that the company has been accepting low-margin contracts to "look good", declaring the claims are "completely false".
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- Gold
Gold royalty will hit harder than Vic claims: Kirkland
The prime target of Victoria's new gold royalty warns the impost may shorten the life of its flagship Fosterville mine near Bendigo.
Decade of inaction leaves gas users on 'cusp' of collapse
Soaring gas prices mean Victorian food processor Kagome is on the cusp of no longer being economically sustainable, its chief executive Jason Fritsch says.
Blue Sky auditor in hot water over collapsed property fund
Auditors are facing a lawsuit about their role in overseeing valuations in a massive property fund that went belly-up.
News Corp to cut 50 staff in Australia
The journalists' union said 50 jobs would go, including around a third from Victoria.
Gold miner Gascoyne in hands of administrators
Directors and executives have quit just weeks after shareholders propped up the troubled mine.
Markets
- Opinion
- Super wars
The opportunity of industry super
If retail funds had performed at the same level as industry funds, Australians would be $135 billion better off, writes Brett Himbury.
Winter chill strikes as ASX drops 1.2pc
Australian shares sank on Monday, the first trading day of winter, as investors fretted over an escalation of global trade tensions.
Rabobank warns of more grain pain this winter
The agribusiness specialist forecasts another below-average crop as stocks dwindle.
RBA urged to steer away from 'unjust' easing
Parliamentarians believe the Reserve Bank is likely to be considering quantitative easing, but say that's not necessarily a good thing.
- Opinion
- Monetary policy
When low interest rates become an investment risk
It is highly uncertain the RBA can further stimulate demand without emptying its policy cannon. That means government may have to lend a hand, writes Alan Mitchell.
Opinion
Brexit hits Australian stocks
Three years after the UK voted to shed its EU membership, financial markets are going through another wave of Brexit paranoia with a dozen Australian stocks suffering share price falls.
Columnist
Nobody will win in this hotting up trade war
There are never any winners in a trade war. Only losers, who are overwhelming ordinary citizens who pay more for goods and services.
Editorial
Queensland's gas maverick returns to where it all started
Richard Cottee lands another opportunity to help mitigate the east coast gas crisis.
Columnist
LNG ceasefire in Western Australia
The state government and the powerful resources industry in Western Australia are quietly trying to negotiate a joint emissions reduction plan to try to head off radical proposals from the state’s environmental watchdog.
Columnist
Politics
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- National security
Labor to wait and see on Home Affairs
Labor's decision to adopt the Home Affairs portfolio does not mean it will keep it in government, amid concerns among top security agencies that the merged department is not working as well as the old arrangements.
- Opinion
- Regulation
Re-regulation is fashionable but leaves consumers worse off
Governments should pause and assess whether re-regulation is truly in the community’s interest, writes Craig Emerson.
Business not investing enough in capital: PC
Australia might have a higher level of productivity compared with many economies but our businesses are failing to invest enough in capital according to the Productivity Commission.
Sydney surprised as PM greets Chinese Navy
Scott Morrison says a 'surprise' visit had been arranged weeks ago but a former senior bureaucrat says Canberra should be more upfront with the public.
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- Energy
Power sector can't hit Paris targets alone
Business Council of Australia president Grant King said the electricity sector cannot do all of the heavy lifting to reach the country's international climate commitments by 2030.
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Swedish court rejects request to detain Assange in rape case
Swedish prosecutors had sought to question Wikileaks founder Julian Assange over allegations of rape.
Bodies spotted in search for missing Himalaya climbers
An Australian woman is among a group of climbers feared dead after being swept away in an avalanche while trying to summit Nanda Devi in the Himalayas.
- Opinion
- Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu is a victim of the politics he created
Avigdor Lieberman owes a great deal to Bibi. But he has also suffered the humiliations of a prolonged junior partnership under an egotistical patron.
Australian aluminium dodges Trump tariff bullet for now
Protectionists in the White House tried to axe the exemption Australian aluminium producers enjoy after a surge in exports.
Taiwan urges China to 'repent' for Tiananmen Square crackdown
Democratic Taiwan tends to use the Tiananmen Square anniversary to criticise China and call for it to face up to what it did.
Real Estate
Apartment risks for Mirvac, Lendlease mitigated: Fitch
Both developers have room to absorb up to 35 per cent of their 2019 half-year pre-sold revenue, the agency adds.
Mirvac transforms Queen Victoria Market tower into build-to-rent
Mirvac has moved rapidly to execute on its build-to-rent strategy with a $333.5 million investment in a project opposite Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market.
Charter Hall funds pull into Brisbane bus depot
Two Charter Hall funds have united to buy out a major piece of Brisbane's public transport infrastructure.
Cladding class action: Not our fault, Alucobond supplier says
Sydney-based Halifax Vogel says consumer law provisions do not apply in this case.
25 apartments on the market after developer goes into receivership
In an all too familiar trend, receivers and managers are selling units in one line to opportunists looking to hold leftover apartments.
Personal Finance
- Opinion
- Sharemarket
Why the charts point to continued rise of share market
There are fundamental and technical factors that support a test of the market high around 6,850, writes CMC Markets' Michael McCarthy.
Hot locker on Wolseley Rd: Point Piper storage room goes for $16,500
There was more competition for a storage space than a car park on Sydney's best-known prestige property street.
- Opinion
- Disruption
Spotting winners and losers in the delivery app hunger games
Delivery apps cater for all tastes and intolerances, nourishing an investment boom. Will returns rise to perfection? Or flop like a failed soufflé?
Technology
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- Funding
Telstra Ventures goes on start-up investment spree
Telstra's VC arm has been on an investment spree over the past fortnight, culminating in being the lead backer in a $17 million round for a Silicon Valley firm.
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- Energy storage
Finkel backs Aussie battery companies to go global
Australia's chief scientist says there is much to be optimistic about in flow battery technology, where the country has some emerging players of considerable promise.
- Opinion
- My Health Record
What government should have learnt from Apple
Ten per cent of Australians have opted out of the government's My Health Record, yet millions of people let Apple, Samsung and Fitbit track their daily habits.
Leadership
Companies are paying lip service to diversity
While most big companies have diversity and inclusion programs, they're not doing enough to support them, a new survey has found.
- Opinion
- Start-ups
Local tech firms must take on the world from day one
PredictHQ raised funding after showing it could bag big-name customers like Uber straight out of the gate. Its founder says Aussie start-ups must go global or die.
Lifestyle
How big data will change your wardrobe
Algorithms and artificial intelligence can speed the fashion design process and even reduce waste, but at what cost?
Why slimmers are thwarted by science of losing weight
A geneticist says losing weight is meant to be difficult because humans are hardwired to maintain a constant size for the best chance of survival.
'Good luck to them': McLaren boss on the latest luxe start-up cars
Car companies new and old are hoping to cash in on the growing demand for ultra-fast, ultra-exclusive electric machines, but not everyone is convinced.
How Underworld's Born Slippy was born
Singer Karl Hyde recalls how his dance classic's stream-of-consciousness lyrics, about to be heard at a series of Sydney shows, document a drunken walk through London.
5 injured in Venice as cruise ship slams into tourist boat
A towering cruise ship struck a dock and a tourist river boat on a busy canal, injuring five and sparking new calls to ban cruise lines from Venice.
