Insights

Frontier economies offer investors higher returns than emerging markets and the benefits of a diversified portfolio, but their great promise must be weighed up against the risks.

Russia-Ukraine tensions have had little effect on hard commodities such as oil, but there's potential for a disruption to the supply of wheat and corn.

The glee commentators are deriving from Abbott-baiting threatens to punish the whole nation rather than the PM. We need bold economic changes as the great cash-cow that has sustained the nation for a decade comes to an end.

The Australian sharemarket closed little changed in light newsflow today but investors continued to pile in to Telstra, sending the telco to its highest level in more than nine years.

It won't be anytime soon, but an economic crunch is on the horizon … here's how you can prepare.

Make no mistake. If Australia's credit rating falls, bank ratings will follow.

The supply/demand dynamics for gold are unchanged … and selling pressure has finally stabilised.

Investors dumped Indian equities last year … but the new government is changing sentiment.

Rio Tinto's massive Weipa bauxite mine could soon get 100% of its power needs during the day from solar. While the size of the project at 6.7MW won't break any records for solar, it represents an important step towards a far bigger future for solar in regions remote from power grids.

On the first day of trading after a break of almost two years from the ASX boards, shares in the outsourcing company soared after its IPO of almost $1bn was seven times oversubscribed.

Telstra must pursue offshore markets in order to grow, but chief executive David Thodey will have to reconcile the company's aspirations with shareholder expectations.

National carrier's shares hit highest point since October last year as it eases capacity focus.

Insurer expects gearing ratio to be at the mid-point of its targeted 30-40% of capitalisation.

Local market lifts 0.3% in early trade following modestly upbeat Wall Street lead.

By the time Google Glass reaches Australian consumers, it will bear the benefits of years of prototyping and development in enterprise.

The oil and gas industry has called for the renewables target to be abolished based on modelling work it paid for from one of the members of the government panel in charge of reviewing the scheme.