Insights

Wall Street surged on positive data, with the S&P 500 hitting a record high, while gold slumped as investor appetite for the safe-haven asset continues to diminish.

Woolworths is reportedly mulling a demerger of its pubs portfolio, while Pacific Equity Partners looks to have earned a tidy profit from its sale of Peters Food Group.

Christopher Pyne's higher education reforms will entrench socio-economic divisions in the university sector and send Australia down the path of selling 'degrees' -- some of which may not be worth very much at all.

Having turned against John Howard's policies, Tony Abbott is on a long journey away from his 'spiritual father'. Where is he headed?

In the recent Indian elections, with the results declared on 16th May, the Bharatiya Janata Party...

After years of wrangling, Rio Tinto and its investment partners have moved a step closer to evaluating the costs of Africa's biggest mining project, including a massive infrastructure build, which could top $20 billion.

The Australian sharemarket has closed steady today, with materials supporting the market despite continued weakness in the iron ore price.

Miner has not confirmed how many alumina employees will lose their jobs.

Miner flags lower gold production, set to adjust dividend policy for growth

Shares in online currency exchange site lose 12% in early trade as full-year profit declines.

Non-cash will not impact cash earnings or dividends, full-year growth target cut.

ASIC's strongly worded warning that it will closely monitor company disclosures of market-sensitive information should keep companies in line and will have a long-lasting impact on the market's integrity.

The failure of Congress to extend emergency unemployment benefits is another hit to the long-term unemployed and could have considerable impact on US economic growth.

Amid all the reports on the issue in recent weeks, five pieces of ice news reveal that the earth's ice cover is in serious decline.

NBN Co's role in backhaul markets is a critical element in getting the NBN right and turning NBN Co into another Telstra would be the worst possible outcome.

Commodity analysts at Citi and Goldman Sachs argue that coal's investment outlook is horrible, with it under siege from three global forces that Australian governments seem to believe don't exist.