Les thought buying hearing aids would be a simple exercise. But he soon found out otherwise.

The ASX finished the week in the red as investors remain sceptical of the global growth narrative.

There's an extraordinary battle underway in a relatively small listed investment company that tangentially involves the well-known names of James Packer and Peter Switzer.

At its current price, Snap makes its much bigger rival Facebook - not to mention internet stalwarts such as Google, Amazon and even Netflix - look like bargain-basement "value" stocks.

Shares erase a fair chunk of yesterday's big gains, led down by the big miners after Wall St exuberance faded.

NAB's chief executive has refused to be drawn on the remuneration of its most recent high-profile executive appointee, former NSW premier Mike Baird.

Minister flatly rejects Parliamentary committee's peace plan.

Commercial broadcaster Nine Entertainment has a new address after announcing it would end its 50-year stay at Willoughby.

Rob Woolley has quit as chairman of Tasmanian foods supplier TasFoods, just days after he resigned as chairman of troubled infant formula supplier Bellamy's in a battle with Kathmandu founder Jan Cameron.

The Federal Court has reserved its decision following an appeal of the approval of the Adani's huge Carmichael coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin.