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One of the saving graces of the coronavirus lockdown period has of course been the much-anticipated release of ESPN's The Last Dance on Netflix, charting the rise of Michael Jordan as arguably history's greatest athlete and the historic turnaround staged by the once-languishing Chicago Bulls in the National Basketball Association in the 1990s.For sports fans,…

Investment bank Jefferies' local outpost has brought two new operatives on board. Jefferies has made two new hires. AFR Street Talk understands the firm has picked up ex-Deutsche Bank operative Mic…

A "striking" turnaround in housing market sentiment and consumer confidence saw property prices grow in six of the eight capital cities in September, but the impact of the pandemic and drag on the economy continued to weigh on Sydney and Melbourne.Property values fell 0.9 per cent in Melbourne, and 0.3 per cent in Sydney but…

New York | At a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday Donald Trump told a sprawling crowd that the Democrats would resort to theft to try to win a toss-up state that is vital to both parties’ fortunes in this tumultuous election.“They’re going to try to steal this election,” the US President declared, without any evidence…

The North Willoughby home of the Commonwealth Bank’s deputy chief executive, David Cohen, and his wife, Safe2Pay boss Schaan Cohen, hit the market on Wednesday.The couple are moving to Collaroy, where last October they bought a four-bedroom, Hamptons-style house for $7.6 million from choreographer David Atkins, founder of David Atkins Enterprises, which staged the opening…

Australian shares are poised to fall at the open as global investors hedged their bets ahead of the first debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump - and ahead of a raft of global economic data.ASX futures were down 48 points or 0.8% to 5887 near 5.40am AEST. The currency rebounded 0.9% to retop the…

London | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was unable to set out clearly his own lockdown rules to journalists on Tuesday, underscoring the confusion and inconsistency at the heart of Britain's COVID-19 fight and stoking a mutinous uprising among his MPs.Mr Johnson was forced to apologise for having "misspoke" after he couldn't explain the minutiae…

The world officially recorded 1 million deaths from covid-19 in one of the most sobering milestones of the pandemic, but the real tally might be almost double that. Actual fatalities from the worst …

2. Brad Banducci Brad Banducci, Australia's "grocer-in-chief". Dominic Lorrimer The Treasurer doesnt often worry about the nations supply of toilet paper. But the wave of panic buying sparked by CO…

For Japan Post, which was briefed by Toll in advance about the profit downgrade, the acquisition turned out to be a disaster. Toll was riven by internal conflict and weak governance controls, was in …