Insights

Shares fall as airline blames soft consumer confidence, business sentiment.

The flexibility of wages in the UK combined with very low investment may explain why the Great Recession took a big toll on productivity, but not on jobs.

Australian aluminium smelters have been struggling since the aluminium price crashed while the dollar rose. But a new Coalition push neglects findings that aluminium smelting is likely to be better off with the current renewables target.

Our major banks are among the most cost-efficient and profitable in the world, but calls for increased competition in the sector could threaten the very stability that saw them emerge from the GFC unscathed.

Retailer's full-year pro forma sales exceed expectations from prospectus.

South African group hopes to acquire 100% of target, buying out Solomon Lew.

Local market begins slightly lower despite upbeat leads from Wall St at end of last week.

Can't afford Adobe Creative Cloud or Final Cut Pro? Here are the best open source alternatives from across the web.

While over a quarter of Coalition MPs appear unhappy with the RET, the government's own economic modelling plus the opposition of Clive Palmer mean they are on a political hiding to nothing.

Crafting a truly personalised shopping experience is not about Big Data and 'targeted' marketing but about allowing customers to be actively involved in the process.

Just how far is the Coalition willing to go to reduce corporate welfare?

Ever found a parcel delivery card on your doorstep even though you were home the whole time? Here's why.

European economy could be €190 billion smaller at the end of the century but the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia will suffer relatively minimal damage from climate change.

Tweaking users' news feeds without their consent in the name of research achieved little from an academic perspective but reveals a lot about the social network's ethics.

By undermining Hong Kong's autonomy, Beijing not only threatens the country's only global financial centre, but it also damages one of its most cherished goals: reunification with Taiwan.

Since the GFC, the take-up of distributed technologies have greatly reduced demand for poles and wires electricity. Yet nearly every major stakeholder still seems to be in denial.