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The pension age will be pushed out to 70 in next month's budget and may come into effect as early as 2029.

Telco to make biggest infrastructure investment in more than a decade in bid to fight Telstra.

China's services sector is becoming increasingly important as an indicator of the country's great rebalancing, with its growth the engine of Beijing's targeted economic model.

China's industrial expansion rests largely on debt-fuelled real estate speculation. A burst property bubble could leave Beijing reeling from simultaneous council and business bankruptcies.

Talk of a government revenue crisis has focused on the need for higher taxes, but the real issue is that politicians are making promises that just can't be honoured from the existing tax base.

The spectre of rising interest rates has spooked some investors, but global diversification across emerging and developing markets could lower portfolio risks and assuage their fears.

Albanese invoked rare parliamentary procedure in bid to save Gillard's leadership.

Mike Baird vows to take action on lobbyists, political fundraising and influence peddlers.

In this week's essential reading guide Kohler devises a quick fix to ballooning super charges, Gawenda charts capitalism's new era, Bartholomeusz watches as NBN Co ups the ante and Burgess explains Hockey's pensions debate.

Oil Search and Newcrest are set to report quarterly production numbers, while manufacturing data from China, the US and Europe will be closely watched.

The bug that has preoccupied thousands of websites and millions of users may well have been the biggest security flaw in internet history but it is unlikely to be the last.

Australia's youth unemployment has tripled since 2008 and much-needed economic potential is being lost day by day. The implications cannot be neglected.

Although the growth in Google's advertising revenue is below that of its peers, the sheer size of the revenues it is pulling out of the market dwarfs all rivals.

On a whole host of issues, political opponents divide the community and stir up fears that make actual progress impossible.

Weighing in on the high-frequency trading debate, Joseph Stiglitz has reminded us that markets exist to provide a fundamental social purpose rather than to deliver profits for short-term traders.

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