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JACKSON HEWETT: The RBA is set to take interest rates below 4 per cent for the first time in two years tomorrow. But that may be where the good news ends.

Mineral Resources has named its man to lead a rebuild of the miner’s depleted board and regain the trust of shareholders left burnt by a series of scandals.

Revenues from border levies will be lower than he expects.

US stocks have opened little changed as investors monitored political developments on tax legislation.

US stocks opened slightly higher, buoyed by the more promising trade outlook between Washington and Beijing and new inflation data.

US stocks have closed higher as investors cheered indications of easing trade tensions between China and the United States.

It was the word on every CEOs lips at the country’s largest investor event, so why can’t Australia work it out?

Australian property listings platform Domain has sealed a $3 billion deal with CoStar after the US suitor sweetened its offer to get its hands on the Nine Entertainment-controlled group.

Jim Chalmers’ Division 296 policy received relatively little attention during the election campaign. But finance experts are warning that it could upend Australia’s investment landscape.

Qantas’ budget airline Jetstar is making the most of the humble toastie as CEO Vanessa Hudson says customers still have cash to travel but to bang-for-buck destinations Vietnam, Bali, Thailand and Japan.

British sporting goods giant Sports Direct’s entry into Australia is set to disrupt the nation’s $5 billion fitness retail market and will come at the expense of incumbent Rebel Sport.

NAB has reassured nervous banking investors with a small increase in first-half profit to $3.58 billion, boosted by better home and business lending despite the unsettling global trade tensions.

Temple & Webster says the trade standoff between the Trump administration and China has been a ‘net positive’ for the online furniture retailer as it posts a jump in revenue.

Two top Australian CEOs are calling on the newly-elected Albanese Government not to let the Lucky Country get complacent, and use its huge mandate to do more for the economy beyond stimulus and handouts.

Channel 7 and its suite of digital television offerings will extend their reach to almost the nation’s entire population after it snapped up television licences across a vast swathe of regional Australia.