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More than 34,000 jobs have been lost from the Australian economy in June pushing the unemployment rate to 4.3 per cent, and raising the chances of a rate cut.

A court ruling shows why trusting your partner’s will to protect your children’s inheritance could be a costly mistake and how your super could end up not going to your children .

Hot on the heels of Country Road Group’s owner warning of recession conditions in Australia, the South African owner of Tarocash and Connor has made a similar dire diagnosis.

Vesna Poljak
Business Editor
The markets


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RBA one precarious step away from ‘policy error’
By JAMES GLYNN
Senior Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Money markets’ surprise the RBA kept interest rates on hold means there are plenty ready to declare it’s made a policy error if second-quarter inflation follows the jobs data bad n...
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