Insights

People from both sides of the debate surrounding government support for renewable energy can often be guilty of strange and sometimes downright bizarre inconsistencies of argument.

The trans-Atlantic battle over the French leader in the steam turbine market reveals top companies' long-term views of global energy markets.

Shell's long-awaited sale of its stake in Woodside Petroleum removes overhang from the market and will provide Woodside with a way to use its excess balance sheet capacity and leverage returns to shareholders.

Economic reforms in China will lift GDP growth potential there eventually, but the situation is likely to weaken before it picks up.

Major shareholder to slash stake through Woodside buyback, sale to institutional investors.

Air New Zealand increases stake in airline to maximum allowed under Aust investment rules.

The recent arrest of rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has implications not only for dissidents and NGOs but for everyone who deals with China at home and abroad.

One standard model suggests an 18-degree rise in temperatures would only result in global economic output reducing 50 per cent. But most of the Earth would be uninhabitable.

Facebook has snapped up WhatsApp and Apple has gobbled up Beats but Google has just bought a company that could have a bigger impact on its bottom line and on the world.

Apple's annual pitch to the developers is over and as the dust settles businesses need to keep an eye on how the tech giant sees the world.

If you're a business with 20 or more employees, adapting your payroll systems to comply with the government's new electronic SuperStream initiative could take months.

US stocks close flat as solid factory output number offset worries about continued unrest in Iraq.

Ending cartel-style agreements in the building sector will have a high political cost for the Coalition, particularly in NSW, but Tony Abbott must take on these vested interests for the good of Australia.

While there are better or poorer ways that the revenue can be spent, Tony Abbott is right to say the fuel excise is effectively a carbon tax, and his opponents are wrong to deny it.

Wall Street managed to eke out minor gains as tensions in Iraq offset positive data, while European markets closed lower.

Do we really want to work like machines anyway?