Insights

Daughter of Lenovo founder takes over the wheel at Didi Dache and Guo Qingping set to become PBOC Deputy Governor.

Back in November the NSW Government hailed the energy regulator's decision to slash network charges as proof Labor's privatisation scare campaign was a lie. Yet now they've decided to oppose this ruling, supporting the network businesses' claims for further price rises. Have they learnt anything from the Queensland election?

China's central bank has flagged its intention to adopt a more accommodative monetary policy to counter the weakening economy.

Solar installers are holding the industry and their customers back with a range of outdated and sometimes downright dumb myths about what can and can't be done. Here are 10 of the worst.

Despite NAB's solid performance in a soft environment, the market and shareholders will be impatient for progress on the bank's structural challenges.

Waiting until the trial to defend corruption charges can be a very risky strategy for businesses.

The new year will be a challenging one for our coal seam gas industry but also a great opportunity for those operators that can get their head around information technology.

The president's wide-ranging plans include stripping back fossil fuel subsidies, helping coal miners find new work, reinstating the wind power tax credit, incentivising states to go beyond their EPA targets and more money for R&D.

Victorian brown coal's share of the electricity market is continuing to grow after the axing of the carbon tax, but sharply falling power demand in the month squared the emissions ledger.

It is naïve to expect that a country with limited administrative capacity, high corruption levels, political instability and severe spending constraints can suddenly become competitive .

A Raspberry Pi-led office revolution may be upon us and the $45 pocket PC could end up velcroed to monitors in some corporations running Microsoft Outlook, Word and PowerPoint.

Falling bond and term deposit yields will have investors mulling a switch into higher-yielding shares. But the risk of capital loss from buying stocks is rising.

Political tensions within the Abbott government have sowed disunity among the ranks, with implications for the Joint Strike Fighter program and our national security.

An agricultural machinery firm that developed in 'a place of mud' is having global success with its adaptations of traditional farming equipment.

Wall Street fell after the ECB rejected Greek bonds as collateral, while a slide in oil prices hit energy shares.

The Coalition's data retention scheme, as its stands, has no backers and the shrill rhetoric has to give way to signs of prudence.