Insights

Greg Robinson's radical surgery means that, with its production improvements, Newcrest should avoid an emergency raising no matter what the gold price does.

Europe's new climate targets, on emissions and renewables mix, are comparatively high by international standards but not that much beyond 'business as usual' for the continent.

Local market falls after weak Wall Street leads, string of production reports.

US meteorological administration points to the fourth warmest year, NASA declares it seventh 'but within a fraction of a degree'.

Coal miner posts lift in production due to strong result from Narrabri mine.

Group posts record fourth-quarter and 2013 sales revenue, production falls.

Miner reaffirms guidance, expects gold production to be around top end of forecast range for fiscal 2014.

Beijing's efforts to rein in smelting industries have met great local government resistance. Whether they'll be more effective this year is a big question for Australian miners.

Insurer upwardly revises insurance margin guidance, warns investors of lower gross written premium growth.

Concentrating solar power is indeed a potential network asset in Australia ... if it is deployed astutely.

In recent years, businesses increasingly outsourced products and services to combat the rising Australian dollar. With the currency now falling, and inflation rising, that logic is coming back to bite.

The outcome of a court case in the US has the potential to totally reshape the internet.

While Tony Abbott wages war on the carbon tax, rising inflation and increasing unemployment will distress the economy. There's not much he can do about it.

3D printing is on our doorstep, but we're yet to fully realise the socio-economic complications this new technology will create.

The NBN is potentially shaping up as a major election issue at the upcoming state elections. How will voters react when the Coalition's multi-technology competitive 'cherrypicking' approach fails to deliver?

A family-owned tourist attraction in the Blue Mountains is answering the question of how to ease Australia's economy from a heavy mining focus to tourism.