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Scuttling the rumours

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THE global financial crisis has triggered a major crackdown on dodgy share trading activity.

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Aussies pay now, buy later

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PERSONAL debt repayments are rising sharply as retailers struggle to sell interest-free period financing.

'Make home buyers' grants like HECS'

Toy house

FIRST-HOME buyers' grants should be axed and replaced with "HECS-style" loans, Australia's key architects' body says.

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Interest rates - what you need to know

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ALL the latest news about interest rates and what it means for you.

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Tax returns could go in five simple steps

Ken Henry

ALL bets are off in a federal tax review aimed at dragging our convoluted system into the 21st century.

Investors flee shares and super

investors

CONSUMER confidence may be returning but investors have lost almost all faith in the bombed-out share market.

Big earners slay Santa spending

Retail spending

MORE than a third of Australians will cut back on their Christmas spending as the country's economic woes start to bite, a survey shows.

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Banks hiking credit card rates

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BANKS are hiking credit card interest rates despite the RBA cutting the official cash rate by 2 percentage points in recent months.

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Fortunes can be made from bears

Buy sell dice

IF history repeats itself, now is the moment when a lot of investors will amass great fortunes, an expert says.

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