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A global internet outage has ­crippled the world’s airports, banks, telcos and shopping centres , causing chaos and sparking emergency meetings in Australia between the Albanese government and some of the nation’s biggest firms to solve the crisis.

Andrew Forrest caught the market by surprise in 2020 when he laid out his vision for a green energy giant. And even after a tumultuous four years, he insists his dream is not dead.

There’s a new Donald Trump running for the White House and the newly crowned Republican nominee wants to unleash the primal forces that drive Wall Street : aspiration, writes Eric Johnson.

Perry Williams
Business editor
The markets


Commentary
The outlook for investors if Trump wins US election
By JAMES KIRBY
Wealth Editor
The likelihood Donald Trump will win the next US election has already triggered a new movement on global markets and is set to reshape the outcomes for Australian investment portfo...
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Fortescue now marching ‘to the one beat’: Forrest
Andrew Forrest caught the market by surprise in 2020 when he laid out his vision for a green energy giant. And even after a tumultuous four years, he insists his dream is not dead.
By NICK EVANS
Country Road boss departs fashion house
The managing director of scandal-ridden fashion house Country Road, Elle Roseby, has resigned from the troubled upmarket retailer after serving six years at the helm.
By ELI GREENBLAT
Sports finances in balance as Paris Olympics looms
Australia’s national sporting organisations, financially struggling off field in the lead-up to next week’s Olympics, fear their problems will endure to the Brisbane 2032 Games.
By JOHN STENSHOLT
The night a family jeweller was brought back from the brink
When insolvency documents were delayed by a printing glitch, Michelle Stanton decided Bevilles, the jewellery chain started by her grandparents in Melbourne in 1934, was worth fighting for. Last year she sold it for $45m.
By DAMON KITNEY
Why financial advice could soon get a lot more expensive
A fight over who funds a scheme to compensate victims of bad financial advice has advisers crying foul as they brace for nearly $135m in claims already from the collapse of just one firm.
By CLIONA O’DOWD