Insights

India quietly sidestepped the need to roll out extensive hardwired telecommunications infrastructure - and the absence of an extensive grid creates a similar opportunity.

Netflix's is finally here and despite questions about the content and the cost of its local offering, its presence just might boost the Australian streaming sector.

Sales of infant formula are booming in China, but this particular dairy milk boom is far from costless.

Local broadcasters need to move quickly into the online space or they'll risk losing the market to foreign streaming companies.

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Not only did we spend too much over the past decade creating excessive network capacity, but the system we have is already outdated.

With a rapidly ageing population, New Zealand faces serious fiscal challenges that should be addressed sooner rather than later.

Positive data supported US investor sentiment overnight, while European shares were mixed over weaker eurozone manufacturing numbers.

Europe's problems are tiny in comparison to those of Japan. The region is not about to enter a 'lost decade'.

Plummeting iron ore prices could see increased M&A activity in the mining sector, while Glencore weighs another bid for BHP Billiton's Nickel West assets.

Everything needs to go right for Newcrest -- gold price, currency, production and costs -- simply to justify the current share price.

The US dollar is on the move and two factors are working in its favour, particularly when compared to the euro and the yen. First, the United States is consistently outperforming Europe and Japan in terms of economic growth and dynamism - and will likely continue to do so.

The growth in China's property sector has been substantial in the course of the last 15 years. This has been fed by the country's rapid urbanisation and, more worryingly, by speculation as households seek higher returning assets.

Unprecedented joint statement urges Labor and Coalition to restart negotiations which grant aluminium an exemption from the Renewable Energy Target while also providing 'strong target that supports the future of renewable energy'. Will it achieve it anything?

$1 per watt solar systems are being advertised now for even small 1 kilowatt installations. The cost of electricity is so much lower than what power companies can offer that they are left with a stark choice: be eaten by others or do it yourself.

I was wrong about the China FTA, but not about Beijing's drive to create a new regional order.