Insights

Brighter news from offshore should send local stocks higher at the open.

The euro's biggest threat isn't speculation or a bank run but sheer political exhaustion. Saving it requires a strong, centralised union - and the EU isn't up to the job.

All eyes will be on US payrolls this week, with another round of Fed comments heightening the market's sensitivity.

Coalition tensions rise over ADM's takeover bid for GrainCorp, while Bega mulls a sweetened offer for Warrnambool Cheese.

IT companies are getting in on BitCoin gold rush by providing powerful PCs and computer chips those who flock to 'mine' coins - and demand is booming.

While Victoria and New South Wales twiddle their thumbs on coal seam gas, South Australia is jumping at the chance for more jobs and a big cash boost for the state.

Scribes cheer Macquarie's strong profit and distribution of Sydney Airport securities, but one warns of an end to the rally in bank stocks.

Australia's housing bubble is dwarfed only by the UK and The Netherlands. That's not the work of the free market, so what got us to this point?

A successful business needs quality employees but in agriculture, skills are in short supply.

Ask 35 leading economists whether they would prefer Labor's carbon price or the Coalition's "direct action" and only two will opt for direct action.

Race-day functions bring spring carnival to the workplace, writes Gayle Bryant.

Should romance with a colleague stay secret if you want peak workplace productivity? Or is it best to circulate the news and stop the rumour mill in its tracks?

A US federal investigation into the hiring practices of JPMorgan Chase has expanded beyond the borders of China, where the bank faces questions about whether it hired the children of powerful Chinese officials to win lucrative business there.

Wall Street is aflutter over Twitter, which is set to make the most anticipated sharemarket debut since Facebook in a huge test for social media and the technology sector.

A recent announcement by Australia's largest industry super fund, and a comparison of investments returns achieved by active fund managers compared with the relevant share indices, should prove interesting for investors in general and self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) trustees in particular.

Stocks in the U.S rose on Friday, with the S&P 500 posting a fourth weekly gain, as a better-than-anticipated report on manufacturing fed thinking of likely monetary-tightening ahead by the Federal Reserve.