Insights

Fresh allegations of benchmark price manipulation suggest financial penalties have done little to deter banks from behaving unscrupulously.

Group to purchase North American glove provider for around $US615m.

Research has found developed countries spent $38 billion on international coal plants from 2007 to 2012. But new rules limiting funding of such plants from the US, and others, should put a brake on growth.

Negative gearing should be on the Coalition's long-term chopping block. Easing out the costly housing distortion could save $5 billion in structural deficit and maybe, if properly explained, win back a vote or two.

With global spending on public IT cloud computing services tipped to hit the $100 billion in 2016, sky's the limit for our cloud outfits, provided they play their cards right.

New research shows rising real estate prices crowd out other sectors, leading banks to cut commercial lending as they boost property loans.

Wall Street hardly budged ahead of Thanksgiving Day, but Atlantic stocks were boosted by a feeling the worst is over.

Future of Gove alumina refinery unclear as negotiations break off.

Local market tipped to begin little changed despite strong Wall Street leads.

Local currency lifts a third of a US cent, remains well below US92c.

Nasdaq tops 4,000 for first time in 13 years, Dow, S&P push deeper into record territory in wake of Iran nuclear deal.

Saputo's 'sweetened' WCB bid could wind up at the Takeovers Panel, while Dexus is far from out of the race for CPA.

America's QE cash injections are not making it far enough into the real economy. The money is funding speculative pursuits rather than stimulating the housing market - and it's a similar story in France.

Have we spent the past two decades living in a liquidity trap? Larry Summers has bolstered the argument near-zero interest rates are a permanent state of affairs.

One jotter argues Dick Smith's IPO is overvalued, while another sees Saputo's 'sweetened' WCB bid as anything but, and could get messier.

Saputo's chief executive has issued a "call to action" to Warrnambool Cheese & Butter shareholders, throwing them an extra $10 million in a final effort to clinch control of the company.