Insights

Shares in education services provider lose 32% after losing major contract with Macquarie Uni.

Drilling services firm blames share price slide on speculation it cannot refinance debt.

Local market drops on global rotation out of equities, investors await Fed minutes overnight.

Scentre Group's raising illustrates the great attractiveness of overseas debt markets, in the window of time where central banks are weighing up the economic stability outlook and still leaning towards emergency-level interest rates.

Valuing hybrids, clarifying share recommendations, FoFA's failures and total returns to investors from 2013-14.

Declining consumer sentiment is no longer a hangover from the budget, but a sign that households will be poorly placed in the second half of 2014. A shift in the public's mood is unlikely unless the Senate blocks the budget's proposals.

A multi-country group of researchers, led by Jeffrey Sachs, has shown how it is still possible to contain global warming and enjoy strong economic growth - with energy efficiency the first of three plausible steps.

Don't be fooled by talk of labour productivity growth. Much of it reflects a shift in employment to the mining industry rather than workers becoming more productive, which will test the economy in the long run.

Alcoa's prospects are starting to brighten as the fundamentals for the aluminium sector are moving towards a deficit of supply, while it also expands its exposure to high-value automotive and aerospace sectors.

Business Spectator is looking to hire an experienced sub-editor with an eye for detail and an ability to write catchy headlines and precedes.

Business Spectator is looking to hire an experienced reporter to break news on merger deals and IPOs.

The underlying market in wholesale electricity contracts has already priced-in the repeal, with power selling at some of the lowest levels since the wholesale electricity market was created.

There's about $5bn in investment dollars, mainly from China, that's waiting to be transferred into Australia but for our technology start-ups the windfall still seems illusory at best.

The media-shy co-founder of online forex broker Pepperstone has already built an empire, but with an IPO on the way Owen Kerr is just getting started.

It's time to stop blaming the carbon tax for the price hikes.

Angela Merkel has been quick to criticise Washington over NSA snooping, but the risks of Chinese cyber espionage could be just as damaging to Germany's economy.