Insights

A busy week locally as key economic data is released and the Reserve Bank Board meet. In the US, employment figures will be the focus of attention.

In this week's essential reading guide, Kohler notes the importance of a bullish Fed and Gottliebsen eyes the potential for a retail surge.

The 100-member rule looks to be repealed as the government strives to cut red tape, but there are other ways shareholders can voice their concerns.

Windowless planes, high speed trains and -- sadly -- nothing about automobiles.

In a bid to reduce the risks of financial instability, the Swiss are weighing up the possibility of reintroducing a limited version of the 'gold standard'.

It was ANZ's Australian retail business that shone in the latest results, but its Asian diversification model is increasingly persuasive and is catching on with its three main rivals.

Trust me, I'm using graphs, the World Bank just quietly slammed Australia's investor protection laws and keeping Australia's young rich list in perspective.

China has been attempting to shape a non-Western security grouping to counterbalance NATO and allow China more room for military action in Asia.

Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign is part of a broad conservative reform agenda to preserve China's Leninist system of single-party rule.

Australia's speculative housing boom is on an unsustainable path and crowding out lending to small business, which will translate to weak economic growth in the long term.

What hasn't been appreciated in the Direct Action deal is that Clive Palmer's dormant ETS is now reality. But 'scientific girly-man' Greg Hunt faces stiff opposition awakening it.

Industry analyst Solarbuzz's Finlay Colville delivers his predictions for 2014 China deployment, global capex and top tier shipments in 2015.

HFC might be able to give NBN Co a boost in connection numbers at the right time but it won't be easy or cheap.

Long-run, environmental sustainability of global industrial development is possible over the next century - but only if we control climate change.

Elon Musk reckons artificial intelligence might be our biggest existentialist threat but are his fears justified?

Policing building ratings, and the actual finished buildings themselves, before certificates of occupancy are issued would see builders very quickly master the fast-track to compliance.