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The 'zombie' problem: Low interest rates and 'leveraged loans' sustain a vast number of lousy companies that should have gone to the wall years ago 12% of all companies globally are now "zombie firms."

IT'S OFFICIAL: IBM is acquiring software company Red Hat for $34 billion IBM will pay $US190 per share for the software company, which it described as the world's leading provider of open source cloud software.

The super funds with the highest, and lowest, fees in Australia for 2018 The Fat Cat Funds Report gave the gold Fat Cat award to ANZ/OnePath as the worst performer.

The Australian dollar looked set to fall below 70 cents before China's currency suddenly rallied The performance of the yuan will likely dictate broader movements in currency markets on Monday.

We went inside one of the sprawling factories where Zara makes its clothes. Here's how the world's biggest fashion retailer gets it done. Here's what it is like to visit the factories and distribution centres that allow Zara to compete in the fast-fashion race

Former Microsoft exec Terry Myerson made one simple change at work that helped him lose 18kg — and anyone can do it He turned all of his regular meetings into "walking meetings."

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