Insights

Retail is doing its best to spoil customers rotten. Data spills from customers, but where it gets tricky is how to refine and use it - all in pursuit of the golden 'return on relationship'.

Complications around takeover bid may force Saputo to buy Warrnambool shares on open market.

Local market expected to follow strong Wall St leads after good jobs data.

Jotters are happy with the current weight of the dollar while the government's financial inquiry continues to drum up interest.

Jotters are happy with the current weight of the dollar while the government's financial inquiry continues to drum up interest.

Local currency slips as United States stimulus tapering expectations weigh.

Australian agribusiness needs far greater capital investment to meet its opportunities for greater innovation and exports. And Canberra must set an example of the open doors it wants our firms to encounter offshore.

Details of Dick Smith's December IPO have investors excited while Saputo shakes up its WCB takeover tactics.

Shareholder revolution is on the rise as the ranks of activist funds swell, unleashing a torrent of campaigns against poorly performing and vulnerable company boards.

Harvey Norman's Gerry Harvey and the Australian Shareholders Association's Stephen Mayne agree on one issue — the retailer should pay out its millions of dollars in franking credits.

The boss of Australia's biggest live cattle exporter is urging a swift diplomatic resolution to the growing rift between the Abbott government and Indonesia over the phonetapping of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife.

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman Greg Medcraft has defended his role as the head of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions, saying the body does important work fighting cyber crime and reforming capital markets.

Thanks Woolies, says Dick Smith

Maurice Blackburn has dismissed the chief of Treasury Wine Estates' criticism about shareholder class actions as a "glass-jaw reaction".

'Warrnambool and us [would] achieve a defendable base.' Gary Helou

Australia's export credit agency wrote more loans in the 2013 financial year than the year before, despite almost halving the total amount of taxpayers' funds it provided.

U.S. stocks gained on Friday, with the S&P 500 recording its first close above 1,800, as positive economic reports countered worries about the Federal Reserve curbing stimulus as early as December.