Insights

The likes of Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook may control the lucrative choke points of the industry but their dominance is under threat.

The second of Australia's six aluminium smelters will close as the nation's smelters sink into the bottom 25 per cent of global competitiveness.

Chinese investors are shunning speculative WA mining projects in favour of taking small equity stakes in LNG assets and high-quality iron ore mines.

New Zealand's recently-introduced restrictions on residential mortgage lending have quickly cooled its overheated property market. It's a valuable lesson Australian policymakers should take on board.

The week in clean energy saw Japan put 3GW of solar projects in doubt, Chile seek a renewables investment rise and EU carbon jump.

Markets lifted by M&A activity after struggling for direction in morning trade.

The Coalition's various policy blunders and Labor's missed political opportunities make the WA Senate election re-run a pivotal moment for the Greens.

Markets were subdued after the President's Day holiday and mixed data from Germany and the US.

Both Chinese investors and SMSF buyers are competing for inner Melbourne and Sydney apartments. The danger is prices may rise too high and then fall sharply.

Future growth prospects for Seven West Media are likely to come from its digital business, but Yahoo!7's middling performance suggests Seven may have outgrown its digital partner.

BHP Billiton slows down its divestment plans, while Wesfarmers' reshuffle may signal expansion intent.

The two charts that explain why the Point Henry smelter was never going to be viable.

Australia's growing fear of the future makes it a strange time for the government to see a polling honeymoon. Is Tony Abbott capable of levelling with Australians about what's next?

Alcoa's closures won't be the last of the sector's pain in the Western world as it struggles to rationalise production in the face of low aluminium prices.

Local market little changed, finds support from BHP amid earnings deluge.

Here's how Andrew Mackenzie is transforming the company.