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Housing market staging slow recovery

| Mike King

More borrowers comfortable about taking on mortgages

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DJs fighting back online

| Mike King

Online sales triple while customers double in a month

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Beaten by its own index: ASX shares lag

| Tim McArthur

Owning the exchange isn't enough to beat the index

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WHK Group in merger discussions

| Tim McArthur

More consolidation is on the cards for the finance industry

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Win the lottery: Buy the house, not a ticket

| Tim McArthur

Your odds of success are a whole lot better!

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Bank boss tips December rate cut

| Mike King

That's if RBA doesn't cut today

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The biggest day of the year

| Mike King

Something for just about everyone

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3 ASX stocks that blitzed the market

| Mike King

ASX ends up 0.3%, but these three did much better

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Super fund members paying $20bn in fees

| Mike King

And that's each year

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3 ASX stocks that crushed the market on Friday

| Mike King

ASX ended flat on Friday - but tomorrow looks exciting!

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Save up to $15,000 on a 'new' car

| Mike King

Demo or 'near-new' cars selling at large discounts to new car prices

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How to win the lottery

| Mike King

Would a million dollars change your life? Here's how to get it!

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Why I recently bought David Jones

| Mike King

Is the department store format about to stage a revival?

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A lottery you always win

| Motley Fool Staff

If you don't get rich quick this coming Tuesday, this route is a great alternative

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Why I recently bought Fairfax Media

| Mike King

Is this company heading for the scrap heap, or the sky?

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It makes me sick to my stomach

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

How many people are genuinely interested in building your financial wealth, as opposed to building their own?

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Consumers to abandon private health insurance?

| Mike King

Private health insurance about to get more expensive

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Tourism drive: Visas online

| Mike King

Government plans to make it easier for tourists to visit

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Car trouble: Handouts not the answer

| Mike King

As the song goes, sometimes you've go to be cruel to be kind

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House prices fall

| Mike King

And interest rates expected to fall further

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Is this the start of a retail recovery?

| Mike King

Some retailers are reporting growing sales

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3 ASX stocks that thumped the market

| Mike King

ASX rises 0.2%, but these three managed much better

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Motley stock of the week: Woolworths

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Is Woolies one for your portfolio?

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Should you buy SCA, Woolworths' property fund?

| Mike King

Woolies is spinning off some of it's property. Here's what we think investors should do

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Telstra's Asian strategy

| Mike King

Telco looking to expand into Asia

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More pain for bank shareholders

| Mike King

Another two banks warn about lower earnings

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Wine prices to rise?

| Mike King

Group calls on government to change wine tax

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Complaints still ringing off the hook

| Mike King

Telstra improves, but Optus and Vodafone fail

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How investors should respond to Hurricane Sandy

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Here's a hint: Don't...

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3 stocks rising more than 5% today

| Mike King

ASX closes up 0.1%, on low volumes as Hurricane Sandy threatens the US

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Hurricane closes New York Stock Exchange

| Mike King

375,000 people evacuated and transport systems shut down

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High wages put $200 billion at risk

| Mike King

Projects could be cancelled or delayed as costs rise

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Another retailer goes bust

| Mike King

Retail Adventures appoints administrators

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White paper: Our future is Asia

| Mike King

Businesses need to work hand-in-hand with governments

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An investor's guide to famous last words

| Motley Fool Staff

It pays to learn from people's mistakes as much as from their successes

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3 stocks that crashed 20% this week

| Mike King

ASX falls 2% for the week - is this a sign of things to come?

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Insurance price hike

| Mike King

Suncorp sees bright future

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BHP bullish on China

| Mike King

Demand for commodities set to rise

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Lessons from the Banksia collapse

| Mike King

$660 million of investors capital at risk

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ASX gold stocks slammed

| Mike King

ASX posts first rise in four days, but that didn't help the gold miners

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