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JACKSON HEWETT: Apart from a widely predicted 0.25 per cent cut, the Reserve Bank also delivered something of a coded warning to the Treasurer. 

It’s a cut! A second dose of mortgage relief is on the way for Aussie borrowers after the Reserve Bank lowered interest rates 0.25 percentage points.

Electric vehicle sales in China rose 58 per cent year-on-year in April, a positive sign for struggling WA lithium miners with the battery commodity’s price running low on juice.

Donald Trump is hurting products from Coca-Cola to Jack Daniel’s.

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.