Insights

Crunching the numbers reveals PV sliced 4.9 per cent off peak demand during the heatwave, moderating energy prices and saving many more homes from disconnection.

A draft UN report suggesting the world may have to resort to geoengineering to combat warming has been slammed by the climate campaigner.

A competition is raging between structural economic reform and China's debt addiction. And time is not on Beijing's side.

Voters who were against the government's debt position are also rushing to lock in loans, before rates rise, to try their luck in property.

More overseas-funded investment and an easing in planning constraints represent a significant reversal in the trends that drove Sydney and Melbourne property prices sky high.

Aside from an Australian dollar spike, international and commodity markets were largely unmoved by China's better-than-expected GDP figures.

ocal market expected to slip after mixed performance on global bourses.

America's recovery will be the unofficial Davos theme, but it won't slow the nation's pivot towards isolationism.

Speculation mounts that Shell's Woodside stake will be next to go, while Air New Zealand's boss joins the Virgin board.

Ben Bernanke has vocally criticised the Fed's 1930s actions. But based on his theories, the outgoing chairman could be found guilty of causing the Great Recession.

The monthly Australian labour force report has a bigger impact on the currency than any of the much vaunted Chinese data releases.

Shopping centre owners have no ground to argue against fair contract laws, which will ensure tenants can negotiate on a level playing field.

Shell's numbers show how the combination of higher costs and lower production can squeeze profitability. But the oil majors have little choice except to pursue riskier projects.

Exchange-traded funds are booming, and more are set to hit the Australian market in 2014.

Transferring pension assets back into accumulation, the assets test, and more.

Australia will outperform, but there are certain areas to avoid.