1+ hour, 34+ min ago   (93+ words) AFR Up to 600 workers at the Whyalla steelworks will be made redundant after administrators KordaMentha and the South Australian government decided to abandon further attempts to restart the ageing blast furnace, which has not been operating since April. KordaMentha have…...

1+ hour, 55+ min ago   (81+ words) AFR Mark Cutifani, a one-time lead candidate to replace Richard Goyder as chairman of Woodside, has quit the board of the country’s largest oil and gas producer. The sudden departure comes just six months after the former Anglo American chief…...

2+ hour, 14+ min ago   (87+ words) afr.com The Agency, home to star real estate brokers like Ben Collier and Steven Chen, has landed on the radar of a Queensland player after being put into play by an all-of-company bid from alternative asset manager Aura. The…...

2+ hour, 19+ min ago   (73+ words) afr.com The lenders to Healthscope, Australia’s second-largest private hospital operator, have backed a revised offer for the group from a consortium led by Calvary Health Care, ending 16 months of uncertainty about its future. The consortium, which also includes private…...

3+ hour, 10+ min ago   (46+ words) afr.com We speak to the team behind the most intriguing recent property sale. The property: A five-bedroom house on 809 square metres at 13 Denman Avenue, Haberfield, NSW. Sold by private treaty for $4.8 million....

7+ hour, 53+ min ago   (95+ words) AFR Commonwealth Bank is ratcheting up the pressure on financial regulators to rein in Macquarie’s use of a corporate structure it alleges provides an unfair competitive advantage, after commissioning economic analysis to show how the arrangement supports Macquarie’s rapid growth…...

6+ hour, 42+ min ago   (99+ words) afr.com A former prominent Sydney banker linked to the collapse of an $833 million hedge fund had previously pitched another foreign exchange trading strategy to investors that projected annual returns of 30 per cent with minimal downside risk. A former business…...

11+ hour, 53+ min ago   (107+ words) CBA ramps ups pressure on regulator over Macquarie capital settings AFR Commonwealth Bank is ratcheting up the pressure on financial regulators to rein in Macquarie’s use of a corporate structure it alleges provides an unfair competitive advantage, after commissioning economic…...

7+ hour, 39+ min ago   (67+ words) AFR Treasury has appointed deputy secretary Katrina Di Marco as its new tax boss, as Jim Chalmers tries to iron out changes to capital gains tax and trusts announced in the May federal budget. Di Marco will succeed outgoing deputy…...

7+ hour, 43+ min ago   (85+ words) AFR Recently departed Reserve Bank board member Ian Harper has revealed that nearly one-third of monetary policy decisions over the past decade were split votes, challenging long-held assumptions of central bank unanimity. Harper said there was “very vigorous” debate among…...