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Manufacturers are bracing for weaker conditions in the coming months.

Manufacturing outlook darkens despite US-Iran peace deal

Manufacturers are bracing for weaker conditions despite Donald Trump declaring a US-Iran peace deal the industry hopes will lead to lower fuel and energy costs.

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Lincraft has pinned its future on an online business model, with plans to close all stores. (EPA PHOTO)

Craft retailer Lincraft puts final stitch in shopfronts

Beloved craft retailer Lincraft will close the remainder of its bricks and mortar stores, citing changing customer behaviour and low-cost overseas competition.

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A couple getting divorced could lose the right to negatively gear an investment property even if they owned it before Budget night, financial advisers fear.

Could divorced couples lose their right to negative gearing?

Financial advisers have raised concerns about divorced couples’ rights to negatively gear investment properties.

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A mural on North Main Street.

The small town hoping for SpaceX crumbs

The 14,000 residents of a Texas town wonder what the historic initial public offering might mean for them.

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Financial markets and economists agree the Reserve Bank will hold the cash rate at 4.35 per cent.

‘Fight not over’: Brutal reality facing mortgage holders

The Reserve Bank is unanimously expected to leave interest rates on hold but whether the next move is up or down remains uncertain.

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Tax distractions have left housing growth to stagnate.

Housing debate ignores a lost decade of growth

AARON PATRICK: Cloaking tax increases as economic reform isn’t going to make Australians better off when average incomes have barely moved since 2012.

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America’s allies have been locked out of the world’s best AI model.

Trump cuts off access to world’s best AI model

America’s closest allies have been blocked from Anthropic’s Mythos.

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Gina Rinehart has emerged as a billion-dollar investor in Elon Musk’s huge SpaceX share market float.

Rinehart sinks reported $1 billion into SpaceX IPO

The WA billionaire has lauded SpaceX as an exceptionally led company operating in crucial sectors, while flagging collaboration between the US group and her Hancock Prospecting mining and agribusiness flagship.

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Oil prices have fallen on the back of the US-Iran peace deal and an easing in fuel constraints. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Australian shares rocket to eight-week high on US-Iran deal

Aussie stocks are surging on news the US and Iran have reached a truce that could end the Persian Gulf energy crisis and cap the impact on global inflation.

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Being declared bankrupt is life-changing. It’s true, some assets held under certain trust arrangements can’t be seized. But could you hide money you may have left from creditors by sticking it in super?

Can a soon-to-be bankrupt hide money in super?

Q+A: Being declared bankrupt is life-changing. It’s true, some assets held under certain trust arrangements can’t be seized. But could you hide money you may have left from creditors by sticking it in super?

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Southern Cross Electrical Engineering chief executive Graeme Dunn.

Southern Cross Electrical taps investors for $165m

The electrical contractor has gone into a trading halt to announce grand plans.

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Hotter-than-expected inflation has flowed through to Centrelink’s means tests. As well as lifting the age pension, higher limits mean you could now get a part-pension. Here’s the new numbers you need to know.

New Centrelink limits that could get you a part-pension

Hotter-than-expected inflation has flowed through to Centrelink’s means tests. As well as lifting the age pension, higher limits mean you could now get a part-pension. Here’s the new numbers you need to know.

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The matter was set for trial but that will now not go ahead, with ASX Ltd paying a $20.5 million penalty and some of ASIC’s court costs to date.

ASX settles ASIC case with misleading statement confession

The Australian stock exchange operator has admitted issuing three misleading statements about the status of a technology project, settling civil legal proceedings brought by the corporate watchdog.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen 353.51 points, or 0.70 per cent, to 51,202.26. (AP PHOTO)

‘Truly overvalued’: Trillionaire Musk’s SpaceX’s market debut

US stocks have closed higher as Elon Musk's SpaceX became Wall Street's biggest public listing in history.

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