In a year where natural disasters severely disrupted air travel, Australia's domestic airlines still managed to carry more than 55 million passengers in 10/11.

The Australian dollar has shed more than half a US cent after official data showed the unemployment rate had risen to a 10-month high in August.

Buyer beware - investors focusing on companies with high dividends could be vulnerable to buying into false price signals, says Goldman Sachs.

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US stocks jumped after a German court ruling helped clear the way for a eurozone bailout and the Fed Reserve said the US economy was still growing slowly.

Stocks of interest on the Australian Securities Exchange on Thursday