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Now loans not even enough to get rental

The local share market was up 1.3 per cent at midday, with most sectors gaining ground after several days of heavy losses.

State health buckling under rising pressure

The local share market has suffered another day of heavy losses with WA gold miners finishing up as the strongest performers of the session.

Well-known mining identity Jim Walker has stepped down from his board roles at ASX-listed companies Mader Group and MLG Oz.

A senior Reserve Bank official says the prevalence of fixed-rate loans and sizeable savings buffers are likely extending the lag time of interest rate hikes.

Union bid to break the bank on pay

The ASX has finished higher for the day but dropped more than two per cent for the week after suffering its longest streak of weekly losses since the GFC.

Westpac, St. George, HSBC, JP Morgan and AMP now expect the Reserve Bank won't raise rates in April - but ANZ and CBA still forecast a rate hike.

A review into Australia's woeful productivity performance is expected to contain 71 reform recommendations to lift pay packets and boost national prosperity.

Younger generations are bearing the brunt of high prices but some say the cost of living crisis may have passed its peak.

Accounting shift boosts Cimic’s profit to $425m

The ASX has finished 1.5 per cent lower after banking contagion spread to Europe.

Fresh labour market data shows the unemployment rate falling back to 3.5 per cent, with 65,000 jobs added.

Fresh labour market data shows the unemployment rate falling back to 3.5 per cent, with 65,000 jobs added.

Green light for first nuclear waste storage repository

The local share market had its best day in two months, rising 0.9 per cent following three days of losses amid fears about the stability of US banks.

FTI Consulting says parties beyond Andrew Forrest and Mike Cannon-Brookes have expressed interest in buying the mammoth solar project known as Sun Cable.

High inflation, rising interest rates and falling consumer demand is putting Australian businesses under increasing stress.

WA’s GST deal costing $10b, and rising 

The local share market finished down 1.4 per cent, although the ASX200 managed to close just slightly above the key 7,000 level.

Consumers are feeling wobbly after the Reserve Bank's tenth interest rate hike in a row and amid stubborn inflation.

The local share market was down another 1.6 per cent in early trading and dipped below 7,000 for the first time since early January.

Newcrest, Newmont free to talk after agreeing NDA, standstill 

The Australian Securities Exchange has closed down 0.5 per cent following the weekend collapse of US banks Silicon Valley and Signature.

Despite a softening of language from the RBA, economists are still tipping another rate rise when the central bank next meets.

Electrifying everything is an unnecessary hit on taxpayers because conventional LPG will be phased out and replaced by a clean version, the industry says.

PM’s warning: price of sub security is $200bn 

The local share market has finished down 2.3 per cent, its worst drop in five months, sending the benchmark index to an eight-week low.

Labor's $15 billion manufacturing fund won't ban coal, gas, or logging. The legislation has passed the lower house after a deal was struck with the Greens.

Labor pushed on four-day week with full pay 

The Australian share market was overall little changed as falls in mining and health care were offset by advances in tech and banking stocks.