Insights

In this week's essential reading guide, Kohler offers his take on the rate cut, Gottliebsen looks at leadership tensions and Bartholomeusz mulls the oil market.

It is not Islam we need to fear but the the underlying social conditions which alienate individuals and drive them to seek meaning in extreme political beliefs.

It's a commonly held assumption that if you sell the poles and wires, power prices will skyrocket. The evidence suggests otherwise.

The Reserve Bank's rate cut has seen domestic investors pour money into high-yielding stocks, but continued economic sluggishness could dent corporate earnings growth.

Corruption investigators claim top leaders in 6 Chinese firms engaging in power for sex and money trades and PBOC official denies rates cut start of new stimulus.

Apple is replacing its Mac iPhoto application with a new one called Photos. Here's what you can look out for.

A journalist's plight demonstrates the depth of China's present illness.

The Reserve Bank's Statement on Monetary Policy overstates the pace of non-mining investment recovery -- and even then it's a depressing read.

We're now into the second act of the Greek story, and the clarity of Germany's message on debt has forced Varoufakis into a hurried rewrite of the script.

Turnbull could be our next Prime Minister but he'll have to sacrifice his commitment to an emissions trading scheme. Still, here are five things he could do to curb carbon emissions without igniting a coup against him.

Sustainable and rational competition has finally arrived in the aviation industry, and it's already having a material impact on the fortunes of both Virgin and Qantas.

National Australia Bank's business loans division is struggling to hold ground in an increasingly competitive space.

The Galaxy S6 is expected to arrive on March 1 but, rather than playing another round of "bigger is better", Samsung might be better off standing its ground against the iPhone 6.

The Abbott government has demonstrated it would rather strip welfare from the unemployed than permit any threat to the inheritances of already well-off baby-boomers.

Leilani Munter has become a high profile ambassador for change via her motorsports career, reaching 75 million people and proving that love of fast cars and caring about the planet aren't mutually exclusive.

The small-scale spot market continued its recovery across December while the market waited for a new target in January. Meanwhile, trade activity in the scheme's large-scale sibling was in the upper range of recent years.