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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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Cochlear suffers first 'strike'

| Mike King

30% of shareholders vote down remuneration report

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Oil and gas 'fires' BHP

| Mike King

Production of majority of commodities higher than last year

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It's official: iPad Mini day is in 1 week

| Motley Fool Staff

And you might get your choice of colours!

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Telstra to pay higher dividends?

| Mike King

Higher dividends could be on the cards

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Does Apple need to catch up to Microsoft this time?

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Xbox Music was introduced overnight in the States

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Little guys winning battle of the banks

| Mike King

Regionals and other small lenders fight back

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House prices set to rise

| Mike King

The number of home loans jumped in August

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Thousands protest coal seam gas

| Mike King

Coal seam gas (CSG) mining 'inevitable' according to NSW government

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Melbourne trumps Sydney in airport stakes

| Mike King

Avalon to become Victoria's second international airport

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Can Arrium last?

| Regan Pearson

Arrium makes a big move in an attempt to cut its debt

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CSL: An Aussie success story

| Tim McArthur

CSL is outperforming the market and expanding its reach

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Meet the company that's outgrowing Apple

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A ripe disruptive opportunity is in the PC market right now

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Miners rise as trade volumes fall

| Mike King

ASX ends flat for the day and the week, but these three stocks jumped

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Apple still changing the world

| Mike King

Apple now largest air cargo shipper in the world

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I'm not too big to admit I was wrong

| Bruce Jackson

The ASX 200 hovers near a 14-month high, but one leading analyst thinks shares could be set to soar remarkably…

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Billabong swamped: Should you buy?

| Mike King

Retail turnarounds are tricky

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Packer signs off with a smile

| Mike King

ACCC clears path for News Corp's takeover of Cons Media

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Aussie John: What property bubble?

| Mike King

Aussie Home Loans chief expects house prices to increase

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Why Wesfarmers' shares are up 16% for the year

| Catherine Baab-Muguira

The WA-based conglomerate has done a great job to turn Coles around

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Three of the biggest movers on the ASX today

| Mike King

ASX ends slightly down, but two of these stocks were hammered

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Australia Post – not just mail delivery

| Mike King

Government owned company has big, big plans

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Go Harvey Norman goes West

| Mike King

Gerry Harvey keen on building mining camps

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Aussie retailers fight back online

| Mike King

Traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers ramping up online sales

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Australians are the richest in the world

| Mike King

And likely to remain at the top

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Why Brambles has lagged the market

| Tim McArthur

Earnings are up, so why isn't the share price rising too?

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Why LinkedIn is all a-Twitter

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Call it "social networking convergence"

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Three stocks outperforming the market

| Mike King

The ASX was down, but these three went against the trend

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Is this Google's next Nexus combo?

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Google is definitely raising the bar for Android devices

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Mining risk to Great Barrier Reef

| Mike King

Newly approved coal terminal the first of nine, according to Greenpeace

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Best time to buy a house in three years

| Mike King

Consumer confidence improves, but we're still not happy

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Should I buy BHP Billiton?

| Mike King

Is it a bargain or will China rain on its parade?

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Rio about-face on the mining boom

| Mike King

Company cans new projects, while focusing on cutting costs

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Mining industry looks to Africa

| Tim McArthur

Cheaper production overseas may put Australian miners at risk

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Central Petroleum farms out

| Tony Reardon

Santos to take some pressure off Central Petroleum

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Will sluggish retail sales continue?

| Tim McArthur

August was still slow, but we're heading in the right direction.

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M&A targets playing hard to get

| Regan Pearson

Company directors take their time weighing buyout offers

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Leighton to sell NextGen

| Tim McArthur

Who will be the highest bidder?

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