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National Australia Bank will train all its tellers to provide "lite" financial advice as it moves to shrink the size of its branches by about 25 per cent and embrace digital technology.

Westpac wants to topple National Australia Bank as the country's biggest lender to business, as competition heats up for corporate and small to medium enterprise customers.

Qantas could quickly raise hundreds of millions of dollars in non-core asset sales to help ease its liquidity squeeze, investment analysts say.

John Khoury, a business associate of Mick Gatto, made a tidy profit at the weekend, flipping a large Princes Hill property he had owned for six months.

It's one of the world's most traded currencies, with a daily turnover of about $460 billion.

The Tax Office is deciding whether an anti-wind farm group linked to former Liberal MPs should retain its favourable tax treatment.

Rio Tinto's hopes of reviving its majority-owned Ranger uranium mine have been dealt another blow by the leak of toxic substances on Saturday.

Top brass at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission have claimed on a number of occasions that the corporate regulator does not do favours.

Weasel words, spin words or wank words. Whatever you call them, they irritate the hell out of us.

Science fiction becomes an everyday reality, writes Christopher Niesche.

The jobs picture in the United States brightened in November as hiring was stronger than expected and the unemployment rate fell to a five-year low, data that increases the likelihood of the Federal Reserve easing its stimulus efforts sooner rather than later.

Commerce ministers have capped days of hard negotiations by approving a commercial deal that the World Trade Organisation hailed as a historic boost for the trade body and the world economy.

Attacks on SMSFs and their trustees are continuing unabated. The negativity has switched from people in the funds management industry with a vested interest to a foreign expert.

With our neophyte Prime Minister and his Treasurer struggling to find their feet - and a direction to travel in - let's hope they've been watching the ABC's interviews with Paul Keating. If not, they're out on DVD this week.

Despite the Reserve Bank's new plan to pressure the dollar, an uncertain growth outlook and far-off Fed tapering could see the board cut rates early next year.

Malaysian newcomer UEM Sunrise Berhad will build two high-rise towers at 224-252 La Trobe Street that will soar 78 levels above the city on a site it bought just two months ago.