Can the global rally last?
Global share markets have staged an impressive financial year-end rally, but the "Brexit" experience has reminded investors just how gut-wrenching vicious sell-offs can be.
Only Turnbull has a genuine agenda
Electing Bill Shorten and Labor would be a dangerous choice in our present circumstances.
Markets rally as investors await stimulus
Investors are back in risk-taking mode, amid growing confidence that the world's major central banks will unleash a fresh flood of liquidity.
It's been a campaign about nothing much
Australians have been disengaged with the campaign, despite the extreme economic risks, political tensions and the rising terrorism threat.
The last frontier for US rates: negative
Investors might have just witnessed the shortest US rate tightening cycle of all time with some now predicting the FED will reverse course.
A crucial economic question for the winning political party
With effects of the reform era wearing off, high taxes, large government and poorly regulated markets undermine the drivers of growth
Europe's democratic deficit undermines the EU
Whatever may be said in its favour, the EU is not democratic, and never will be.
What Boris should do next
Right now the best thing to do is nothing. The UK must work out what it wants.
Bureacracy is Brexit winner
The sky may not rain bureaucrats, but think of the meetings, communiqués and memoranda of understandings to come
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philip baker
The last frontier for US rates: negative
Investors might have just witnessed the shortest US rate tightening cycle of all time with some now predicting the FED will reverse course.
tony boyd
Goodbye Brexit, hello Trump
It did not take long for the pundits, commentators, economists and business TV gurus to turn their minds from Brexit to the next biggest threat to global financial market stability – Donald Trump.
phillip coorey
Turnbull a tough leader stuck in a weak position
Caught between Labor scares and his own conservatives, the PM makes a tactical retreat.
greg earl
Experts split over Southeast Asia's future
Australia's top diplomat has questioned the ability of Asian countries to manage strategic and economic challenges.
jennifer hewett
It's been a campaign about nothing much
Australians have been disengaged with the campaign, despite the extreme economic risks, political tensions and the rising terrorism threat.
alan mitchell
Brexit gives Turnbull a second chance
Malcolm Turnbull's chances of winning the election are said to have been strengthened by the Brexit vote. But it may offer him a good deal more than that.
michael smith
Vocus flexes muscle with NextGen deal
The purchase of NextGen's 17,000 km fibre network has given Vocus hope it can double its market cap to $10b within five years.
matthew stevens
Forecasts wrong, but strategy's right: Henry
No one at BHP Billiton does data with quite the fascination and conviction as the minerals boss Mike Henry.
laura tingle
Our longest campaign reaches its ratty end
It was only Tuesday before the election but it had a definite Thursday before the election feel, writes Laura Tingle.
tony walker
Brexit: Malcolm Turnbull's Tampa moment
Once again in Australian political history an external event has played into domestic politics in ways that could not have been anticipated.
