Insights

The battle for Ten Network takes another twist, while Asian investors are believed to be sizing up Alinta Energy.

Conflicting market forces, coupled with downside risks in the eurozone and Japan, are just some of the factors that will ensure a year of uneven economic growth.

Faced with a concealed debt problem, slowing growth in household wealth and a struggling private sector, it's clear Beijing cannot simply sit on its economic laurels.

China's GDP growth has fallen short of its official target, but it's not necessarily a cause for doom and gloom.

A comprehensive CHOICE survey of solar power system owners around the country can reveal the answers to some of the burning questions facing consumers and retailers.

The Coalition's FTAs with China and South Korea include provisions for labour mobility that could alter Australia's industrial relations landscape.

A Victorian power network is willing to pay a premium for power exported from solar systems and has been for several years now. Yet few have noticed and retailers aren't passing it on. It shows the risks but also opportunities from power price reform.

Any significant improvement in the Australian economy will depend upon both a weaker dollar and a broad-based program of economic reform.

Sam Walsh's emphasis on strong volume growth and cost-cutting looks set to placate shareholders, and could keep Glencore's merger ambitions at bay.

The supermarket giant may struggle to maintain sustainable earnings growth alongside the change in ethics within the division.

NBN Co's new found confidence in connecting apartments to the NBN owes a lot to Malcolm Turnbull's carrier licence condition gambit. However, the telco industry isn't entirely pleased with the minister.

When its carbon price fell to record lows last year, Europe's emissions trading scheme became more of a compliance formality than investment driver. But a planned re-calibration should see it driving decarbonisation again soon.

Switzerland has run an almost perfect economy, with low debt and sensible budgets, but this impressive track record has come back to hurt them.

New data calls into question the assumption that China's slowdown necessitates large-scale stimulus. Even if Beijing chooses this path, it's unlikely to work as intended.

Google's wearable spectacle was always a product looking for market but is the Glass gone for good?

Regardless of the knee-jerk reaction to European quantitative easing, any stimulus package will put the euro under pressure over the medium term.