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The curse of CBD has struck down the Australia's Worst Journalist website run by disgraced former doctor Geoffrey Edelsten.

Competition tsar Rod Sims is confident police will arrest fugitive conman Peter Foster, who boasted on the weekend that he had fled to Fiji.

Electronics chain Dick Smith believes the local market could support as many as 30 of its Move concept stores - a specialist mobile and wireless device retailer that fuses fashion and tech - as the group prepares for its $600 million sharemarket float slated for as early as Christmas.

Stocks in three of the big four banks have hit record highs ahead of their earnings season, boosting the local sharemarket as it looks set to start the week above its five-year peak.

A proposed residential tower at 383 George Street is a step closer to fruition after developer Fife Capital's $110 million project was approved by City of Sydney Council last week.

Pernod Ricard, the world's second biggest drinks company and owner of the Jacob's Creek label, is the latest beverages group to warn that consumer demand for premium brands in China is being punctured by the government's clampdown on banquet spending and other austerity measures.

The last car rolled off the assembly line at PSA Peugeot Citroen's factory in Aulnay-sous-Bois on Friday, marking the end of four decades of production at the plant on the outskirts of Paris.

Most Australians think companies should pay their fair share of tax and support new regulation to improve transparency and reduce profit-shifting by multinationals.

A ruling by a Cayman Islands judge may stop the Australian Tax Office investigating assets secretly held in the tax haven, experts say.

The increasing popularity of self-managed super funds is undeniable. From about 70,000 SMSFs in 1994, the number has increased to just short of 510,000 by June 30, 2013. Of the $1.58 trillion invested through Australian super funds, SMSFs control $496.2 billion, making it the largest sector of the superannuation industry.

A former executive who was sent to jail for insider trading but then released on appeal with his conviction quashed has slammed the corporate regulator for the way it conducted its case against him.

The sky is just one of many odd spots for business talks, writes Adam Courtenay.

It's the question every business owner wants the answer to. How to build a $100 million business?

Turning up to work with children in tow can be hard for all concerned, but sometimes parents don't have a choice. A pupil-free day, a babysitter not being available, day care closed or a sick child can leave parents with no option but to lug them into the office.

Free advice and longer holidays are among the benefits that come with life as an entrepreneur, writes Nina Hendy.

Rightly or wrongly, the baby boomers are often made out to be an economically selfish bunch. Such sweeping claims can only get us so far, but this is a generation that has enjoyed asset price booms, job security and social spending that their kids are unlikely to experience.