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The powerful people who control the purse strings of Australia’s biggest companies are worried about what lies ahead next year, coinciding with a warning the economy has “hit a wall”.Consulting firm Deloitte released its biannual CFO…

Coles and Woolworths will send their chief executives to face questioning over whether customers are being ripped off as the major supermarkets are ordered to attend a senate inquiry into “price gouging”. The major supermarkets have…

Christmas may be at risk after a major supply chain disruption due to a cyber attack shut down Australian sea ports last Friday.DP World, which manages 40 per cent of Australia’s container shipments, was hit by the cyber attack late last…

Australia is in per capita recession. This means that the average individual’s share of economic output is shrinking.It is not a headline recession only because of rampant population growth, lifting aggregate output enough to prevent it.…

Two popular Aussie banks have hiked interest rates days before the Reserve Bank of Australia is forecast to set another increase. ANZ, Australia’s fourth largest bank, increased its fixed rates by up to 0.35 percentage points for both…

Just one in 10 potential first homebuyers could actually achieve the Australian dream and buy their own property, alarming new research has revealed.After decades of soaring property prices locked many young people out of ever escaping the…

Thousands of working families will miss out on electricity bill relief worth up to $500 in the budget under an income threshold cut-off.News.com.au can reveal the winners and losers under the billion-dollar energy relief package designed to…

Millions of households will secure up to $500 in energy relief in the budget to help cover the cost of soaring bills.Treasurer Jim Chalmers has confirmed that cost of living relief will be the centrepiece of the budget, but it will be…

It even makes economic sense, in a roundabout kind of way.VALUEThere is an art – known in some circles as “man maths”– that involves convincing yourself that the more expensive version of a car represents prudent buying. Those man maths…

Toyota’s Corolla Cross expands the brand’s already comprehensive range of softroaders, slotting in neatly between the larger and more expensive RAV4 and the pint-sized Yaris Cross.VALUERecent price rises have diluted the value-for-money…