Insights

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.

Winemaker Tahbilk has reactivated its export growth strategy for the US market as the Australian dollar's recent retreat from parity has made sales to the region profitable for the first time in years.

Macquarie Group's plan to distribute its $1.4 billion stake in Sydney Airport to shareholders has sparked predictions the bank will look to sell more legacy businesses to lift returns.

One of China's wealthiest individuals has bought a Melbourne mansion worth more than $20 million amid claims the businessman regularly flies into the country in a private jet bringing suitcases of cash.

National Australia Bank has called for a deeper and more liquid corporate bond market to boost Australia's financial system and bring it in line with other developed economies.

Exactly one year ago, OceanaGold chief executive Mick Wilkes promised high-calibre institutions would come onto the junior's share registry if its new Didipio mine in the Philippines proved a success.

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.