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Surprise: Online furniture sales take off

| Mike King

Furniture customers are happy to buy before trying

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Banks expect more defaults

| Mike King

A warning to bank shareholders

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Facebook shareholders 'Like' its results

| Mike King

Revenues jump 32% and shares pop

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AGL back on track

| Tony Reardon

After a tough quarter, AGL is on the rebound

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Asciano in need of some heavy lifting

| Tim McArthur

Beware of too much debt

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U.S. multinational snaps up 10% of Graincorp: what's next?

| Tim McArthur

Foreigners may find targets in other food producers

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What's the problem with Origin?

| Regan Pearson

The share price is down -- should you buy?

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Sex still sells for Ansell

| Regan Pearson

European woes offset by passion in the BRIC countries

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Trillion-dollar home loans

| Tony Reardon

The mortgage business is getting more competitive, and that's good news for consumers

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3 large caps that trumped the market

| Mike King

ASX follows overseas markets down, but these three companies posted rises

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Telstra to rollout low cost internet

| Mike King

Telco has big plans for junior Internet provider

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Minister calls miners 'fat and lazy'

| Mike King

Record commodity prices gave false sense of security

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Inflation shock: prices on the way up

| Mike King

CPI data reduces chance of rate cut on Melbourne Cup day

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Place your bets: A second Sydney casino is coming

| Mike King

NSW government looks set to approve plans for casino

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Apple unveils iPad Mini, iPad upgrade and new Macs

| Motley Fool Staff

As the company says, "there's less of it, but no less of it"

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3 stocks that dragged on the market today

| Mike King

ASX ends flat, but these three companies fell

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Woodside to bid on 'monster' Israeli gas field

| Mike King

Woodside bidding on giant offshore gas field in Israel

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Apple's iPad Mini event: What to expect

| Motley Fool Staff

What can investors look forward to?

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Wotif sees surging demand for overseas holidays

| Mike King

Australians still want travel agents when booking overseas trips

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Foxtel's Christmas present for subscribers

| Mike King

21 channels coming free to iPads

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High-tech Christmas coming

| Mike King

New Apple, Google and Microsoft products to drive sales

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The death of TV

| Mike King

Are free-to-air TV stations going to end up on the scrap heap?

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Graincorp shares soar — is food the next investment boom?

| Mike King

Forget the mining boom. The world will have 9 billion mouths to feed by 2050. Buy food.

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U.S. stocks have worst day in 4 months

| Motley Fool Staff

Dow plunges on earnings disappointments. ASX set for a rough Monday

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3 blue chip stocks crunched by the market today

| Mike King

ASX hits new 15-month highs, but that didn't help these three

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Nuclear fallout hurts uranium miners

| Mike King

Fukushima incident still reverberating around the world

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Car prices set to fall

| Mike King

Toyota fires the first shot in what may become a price war

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Petrol prices spike – here to stay

| Mike King

Prices rise, but don't appear justified

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QBE's tough year

| Tim McArthur

Can this insurer rebound from droughts, bad weather, and poor management?

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Good news at BassGas flows to Origin and AWE

| Tim McArthur

Production headaches are over as BassGas comes back on line

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Is Nine Entertainment broken?

| Tim McArthur

Investors should think twice before investing in cheap media shares

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3 stocks that blew the market away today

| Mike King

ASX rises 0.7%, but these three added more than 10%

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High frequency trading killing the art of stock market investing

| Mike King

High frequency trading may have had its day in the sun

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ASX dividend yields are positively mouth-watering

| Bruce Jackson

When compared with falling interest rates, the dividend yields on offer from selected blue chip ASX companies are positively mouth-watering

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When a brand ambassador goes bad

| Mike King

Sponsorship remains an important part of marketing

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Shares on fire: A new bull market?

| Mike King

Australia looks well set

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Australia missing the boat: BHP chief

| Mike King

Mining investment could head offshore

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Discounts over: Coles ends 'my5' promotion

| Mike King

Coles ends my5 promotion - can now start more targeted advertising

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Weak housing market claims another victim

| Mike King

Weak residential sales hammer property developer

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Echo to sell Townsville casino

| Mike King

Echo to focus on its core casinos

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