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People already encounter traps in signing up to electricity contracts, so opening the market to more complex retail offerings, incorporating products like solar, batteries and smart appliances could be overwhelming. Mobile phones offer some lessons.

These families have rolled up their sleeves, put a peg on their nose and got stuck into the most unpopular businesses around. But their bank balances, for the most part, have polished up nicely.

Business Spectator's guide to the full-year results of Australia's publicly-listed companies.

Bond options for retail investors, W-8BEN forms, behind stock picking recommendations, and more.

As long as Beijing remains determined to extend de facto sovereignty in the South China Sea, any attempts at conciliation will be dead in the water.

Flatlining growth in Commonwealth Bank's second half suggests economic uncertainty and weak consumer and business confidence are likely to weigh on the bank's future profitability.

In this video Stephen Bartholomeusz analyses what CBA's second half earnings say about its growth potential and how that will impact its high valuation.

The support of the South Australian independent appears key for the government as it tries to turn a potential two Senate votes into four during the upcoming parliamentary session.

The online piracy debate has sparked plenty of conjecture but there's no simple remedy available when it comes to enforcing copyright law.

The world's dumbest app, as some have labelled it, just might have the last laugh.

When it comes to arguing about climate science, it would be better to play the science, not the scientists.

A gold rush mentality threatens to undermine security in the emerging IoT, and it will be up to business to demand more from manufacturers as standards evolve.

India moved closer to a scheme to encourage large solar farms as China made a start on its 2014 target while, elsewhere, Sunpower and VW partnered on storage.

The political class often talk up the importance of the fossil-fuel business in America but while the sector is important to a handful of states, energy production is overall a small slice of the economy.

Rising geopolitical tensions have caused nervousness in recent days but there are already signs an Australian dollar recovery is in the pipeline.

Australian society is changing and so are our work habits. Until the participation rate stabilises there's no point fretting over a small lift in the unemployment rate.