Insights

The last-minute rescue of a three-billion-yuan trust product in China bears an eerie similarity to the Bear Stearns bailout. Investors have been spared the pain of a drastic haircut for now but the question of moral hazard remains.

The week in clean energy saw solar progress in China and the City of London, while the EU struggled with a 2030 renewables consensus.

The Government's proposed welfare review will likely look to root out 'dole bludgers' and 'disability deadbeats' but will ignore the biggest drain on the welfare coffers - the aged pension. Generous entitlements have pushed it to 10 per cent of the federal budget and it's growing.

The employment minister is talking more sense on unions than the Labor party. Bill Shorten needs to take a stand or risk losing the industrial relations fight to the Coalition.

As the comments below this article will almost inevitably show, there's no vaccine against persistent attacks on scientific evidence.

An inquiry into corrupt practices on building sites will give the government the power it needs to finally end the cosy construction deals between major builders and the unions.

US stocks climb despite mixed data, weak update from tech giant Apple.

Managing a data rich world requires a new perspective. Forget big data it's about "all data".

The digital currency's biggest global promoter finds himself in hot water but what does it mean for Bitcoin's future?

A resurgent UK economy has not yet translated into productivity or wage growth, and while the BoE grapples with the effects of a higher pound, Australian exporters should benefit.

Wall Street rebounded overnight, helped by good news on US house prices and strong corporate earnings. Emerging market fears subsided.

Tennis champion Li Na's failure to recognise China in her Australian Open victory speech symbolised the growing tension between individual expression and loyalty to the state.

Healthscope is set to ramp up a bumper year of IPOs, while Deals Direct pursues an unconventional reverse listing.

Many, including me, subscribe to the view that US economic growth will accelerate in 2014, if only because fiscal drag will be less than in 2013. Let’s just say that view has had little support from the data so far this year. It was, in any case, a remarkably slow week for macro-economic news. It was a poor week for the share market, mainly because of concern about global growth and lacklustre earnings reports.

Weak US home sales data, tapering worries weigh on local market despite survey showing a lift in business conditions.

Our dollar has been swept up in a wave of anxiety that has slammed emerging market currencies.