Insights

Our market is drifting while the rest of the world is ticking higher. It's time to look hard at what the ASX is telling us.

We update our recommendations on these four small caps following their recent share price swings.

Long ignored by Australian investors, bonds are now being seen by SMSFs as the middle ground between term deposits and shares.

Jacqui Lambie announced today she would help the government cut the RET and the CEFC. Her reasons illustrate profound ignorance which insiders say is a product of a puppet master inside her office opposed to wind power. But it matters little.

The energy regulator is set to announce a decision that will impact on moves to further privatise Australia's electricity distribution network.

Reducing the Renewable Energy Target would transfer great chunks of revenue from Tasmanian renewables, mainly hydro generators, to mainland power companies - while consumers would lose, too.

Why is it that the US and UK have fared better than Japan and Europe in the wake of the financial crisis?

BHP Billiton remains committed to generating volume growth despite its push for increased operational productivity and capital efficiency. It won't be an easy task.

What are the economic issues Victorians are worried about heading into the election? In this video, Terry McCrann explains the factors to look out for.

While environmental campaigners call for divestment on moral grounds, financial experts increasingly agree that fossil fuels carry growing risks. Yet the Future Fund chair dismisses the latter concern.

The logic surrounding across-the-board network capacity charges is seriously flawed. But instead of addressing this absurdity, the electricity network lobby just complicates the mess with its cross-subsidy cherrypicking.

The ENA has used outlying figures and dodgy logic to form its arguments against grid disconnection. In reality, solar with battery systems are safe and increasingly affordable.

The finance industry can survive the tsunami of disruption headed its way but it will have to reinvent the digital banking game.

Leading bankers back PBOC's rate cut move and Hebei province shifts steel production abroad.

The success of the Medibank float has whetted the government's appetite for the privatisation of more state assets.

The 2014 APEC leaders' summit witnessed a string of successes in Chinese trade diplomacy.