Insights

GDP revision, jobs data show US economy improving; Fed taper worries persist.

As the carbon tax is controversially repealed, Australian business must turn its mind to operational and reputational risk.

If unleashed, China's massive foreign reserves have the power to dramatically affect asset prices. In Australia it could turn the home ownership dream into a tenant reality.

There is no democratic honour in Labor acquiescing on carbon pricing. Rather, there's much to gain by delaying repeal.

Larry Summers' gloomy argument that 'secular stagnation' is to blame for low growth ignores the real, fixable problems that major economies are facing.

While the strategic review will shed some light on Labor's dysfunctional NBN rollout, the public isn't likely to get any answers regarding the critical question of copper.

Stronger-than-expected US GDP mostly reflected growing inventories. Manufacturers and retailers are stocking up but the figures suggest consumers aren't yet opening their wallets.

Local market expected to begin weaker after upbeat US growth data.

Coalition distances itself from guarantee, airline's credit rating under review.

For the small-scale renewable market, the STC spot price has made up some of its losses while certainty might be coming to the scheme's large-scale sibling.

Wall Street drew a muted response from stronger-than-expected GDP figures ahead of tonight's payroll data.

Qantas' pleas for help fall on deaf ears, while Veda Group's strong debut on the ASX puts to bed concerns of IPO fatigue.

Fairfax's Stayz sell-off may signal further divestments of underperforming digital assets such as RSVP in pursuit of capital to grow its Domain business and new content and events units.

So long, debt ceiling, we hardly got to know you. The case for killing it off was summarised on Thursday by Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox. It was an artificial device that imposed unnecessary inflexibility and created openings for political opportunism, he said.

The dizzying heights of a $6 share price seemed like a distant memory for Qantas investors on Thursday, as the airline continued its atrocious run with its biggest one-day loss since June last year.

The mounting cost of long delays to Jetstar's offshoot in Hong Kong gaining approval to fly have been revealed in leaked internal documents that show it considered getting Qantas to store planes in Australia.