ANZ profit surges to $7.6b as cost-cutting drive pays off

The ugly, inglorious end to the 188-year-old luxury department store came down to $5 million in unpaid rent.

A conversation I had with the future president two decades ago gives us an inkling of what could be ahead.

BPM Minerals is Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week after striking high-grade gold in the first two holes at its Bonnie & Clyde prospect in WA’s Eastern Goldfields.

Australian shares have limped across the finish line but notched a second straight week of gains.

The Cap Raise Crucible looks at how gold raisings kept the brokers busy and some punters celebrating. Elsewhere, strategic cheques, fat fees and options have delivered mixed fortunes.

Shareholders in the country’s largest media company have delivered a protest vote against the company’s executive pay arrangements.

A chef who refused to put pineapple on pizza has failed to regain his job after submitting his unfair dismissal application late.

The airline is hiking airfares and making deeper cuts to domestic flights early next year to tackle rising fuel prices.

Critical Resources has started prospecting for lithium at its Vermillion Bay project in Ontario, Canada, just 70km from its eight-million-tonne Mavis Lake resource.

Big Hits looks at notable drill intercepts reported to the ASX this week, led by big shallow hits from Chalice Mining in the NT, BPM Minerals in WA, and Australian Gold and Copper in NSW.

Is the company dead? Will everything be on sale? And can shoppers still redeem gift cards at the department store stalwart?

Small businesses that supply the department store will take a financial hammering from the company’s dramatic collapse.