Новости за 03.02.2017

The market for US short-term interest rates has been abuzz with talk of a winning, hawkish bet on Federal Reserve policy.

As stock hedging goes, Brexit isn't the uppermost on investors' minds these days.

Falling volatility in currency markets suggests traders are getting used to the rhetoric in President Donald Trump's tweets.

New York: The Trump White House has given its clearest public commitment yet that it will honour the refugee agreement made with Australia even as the president's official spokesman got the name of Australia's prime minister wrong for the second day in a row.

Mohamed El-Erian said lacklustre wage growth in the US may prompt the Fed to pause before raising interest rates again.

Wallabies star Quade Cooper has maintained his unbeaten record as a professional boxer with a knockout victory on Friday night in Adelaide.

BHP has asked the government to mediate with unionised workers at its Escondida copper mine in Chile, the world's largest.

Canadian department store operator Hudson's Bay has made a takeover approach for US department store chain Macy's.

Key Trump aide Kellyanne Conway has taken "alternative facts" to a new level, citing a massacre that never happened to defend President Donald Trump's so-called 'Muslim ban'.

​Employers added a healthy 227,000 workers to their payrolls in January, the government reported.

Tensions between the US and Iran escalated on Friday as President Donald Trump prepared new sanctions and told Tehran it was "playing with fire."

The three cities bidding for the 2024 summer Olympic Games have submitted the final part of their bid books to the International Olympic Committee.

Paramedics who fought to save victims injured in the tragic Bourke Street mall attack have released a powerful video message thanking members of the public.

Newcastle trainer Kris Lees had one question when he saw Danish Twist on the front of the promotional brochure for The Everest.

All 15 of the Giants' interstate recruits are living in the same duplex in Condell Park.

More than 50 firefighters and two helicopters were called in to battle a major fire that broke out at apartment complex in Melbourne's east on Friday night.

A morning exercise group found a fatally injured man, whose throat appeared to have been slashed, in a lift well at Westfield Doncaster shopping centre.

Police sources say the man was trying to get into the museum's underground shop carrying a bag before he was shot and wounded.

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are sick of Donald Trump. They have bigger fish to fry.

It was a memorable opening night for the AFL Women's competition, with the crowd catching everyone by surprise.

The AFL will consider moving another Collingwood women's home game to Ikon Park after the stunning success of Friday night's AFLW opener.

Luxury car importer Neville Crichton has pulled off the ultimate trophy home deal swapping his recently sold $60.8 million Point Piper mansion to buy a "mini-me" version up the road for almost half the price.

With Malcolm Turnbull desperate to keep burning coal for electricity, just how important is the mining industry to our economy?

In most years there’s room for one forecaster of the year. But not in 2016. Hardly any of our panel picked the dive in Australia’s growth rate to 1.8 per cent or the dive in the cash rate to a record-low 1.5 per cent. Wage growth was lower than all but the most pessimistic of the forecasts, and house prices ended the year far higher than the highest.

Danny Green beat arch rival Anthony Mundine in their bitter boxing bout on Friday night.