Insights

Zhou Xiaochuan, China's chief central banker, has some fascinating insights into the future challenges for the world's second-largest economy.

It is easy to paint workplace relations as a 'left versus right' issue but the review is an opportunity to fix the flaws in the legislation.

Arrium's surprise capital raising last year has turned out to be a wise insurance policy, with the miner now able to restructure in a bid to avoid another near-death experience.

There is a widespread belief that evaporative cooling is a more energy efficient option than a conventional air conditioner - it's completely wrong. Evaporative cooling is a disaster for energy efficient and lower carbon homes.

QLD Labor's plan to merge government power generators into one company would be like merging Coles and Woolies. At the same time the LNP must break-up the two government generators into more companies if privatisation is to really deliver lower bills.

60 billion euros a month will now start pouring into European economies, but it may be years before it repairs the economy.

It's going to take a lot of hard work for the government to stay the course with the MTM NBN. Even if everything goes to plan, we are going to end up with a network that will barely meet the standard definition of broadband.

Last updated in 2012 at five minutes to midnight, the clock has moved forward two minutes as the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists grows further concerned about the emissions trajectory.

The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. Nowhere is this more evident right now than amongst the Internet of Things, where a smart home standards war is looming.

The eurozone economy won't get back on its feet until fiscal policy starts working in conjunction with monetary policy.

ECB President Mario Draghi is confident about what the central bank's QE program will achieve, but a number of risks pose a threat to his plan.

Microsoft's Windows 10 should be able to convince enterprises and consumers to upgrade from Windows 7 but it's not enough to resuscitate the software giant's ambitions in the mobile space.

The IPO pipeline is filling up with several large floats planned for 2015, as Australia's first medical marijuana stock debuted on the ASX.

European and US sharemarkets rose on the back of the ECB's announcement of its €1.1 trillion bond-buying program, while oil prices continued to tumble.

The ECB's move is likely to worsen uncertainty in the troubled region and discourage European governments from embarking on much-needed reforms.

Where there is crisis, there's often opportunity -- and crude oil's tumbling fortunes are a case in point.