Insights

Adding an open-ended market element to Greg Hunt's carbon abatement auction could tempt otherwise-frightened firms into the emissions reduction game.

Media company seeks approval to offload NZ magazine arm to Bauer.

Unemployment and trade balance data from the ABS could move local markets, while the Commonwealth Bank's quarterly update and Westpac's earnings will also be of interest.

Local market edges lower in early trade on weak EU employment figures.

With fiscal and monetary policy tools exhausted, European countries have few options available. Diverging inflation rates in eurozone nations may help put labour and goods to more efficient use.

First-quarter sales increase on growth in the fashion and beauty categories, but warns of challenges, particularly for electronics.

TV networks obsessing over the Google threat are ignoring the far bigger problem of Twitter and Facebook on their horizon.

About 40 per cent of Australia's thermal coal production may be loss-making, and Chinese demand is slowing.

You know things are on the mend when junior resource stocks are feeling confident enough to undertake a capital raising.

In what may be a sign of a more permanent slowdown, global emissions growth slowed markedly last year as renewables increased at an accelerating speed.

Why does the radical option of geoengineering appeal to those interests which, otherwise, show little concern about climate change.

Financial services group confident of increased FY profit, increases H1 operating income, has $385bn assets under management.

Are the Coalition's "open and independent" NBN reviews are anything other than a front for a change management process? It's time to simply call it out for what it is: justification for the government's NBN plan.

The rivalry between CSL and Baxter intensifies, David Jones' Q1 sales are out and Newcrest hits another rough patch.

Major Wall Street players are getting worried about the Fed's inability to manage the taper. The longer the Fed waits the more difficult the task becomes.

SA Power's quiet ruling on feed-in tariffs for solar storage owners is a backward step in defence of conventional business models.