• COMMENT

Scott Morrison may have dodged the award for the government's dodgiest performance this week.

Challenged would be the best word to describe the 2016 earnings released in the first real week of the 2016 financial year reporting season.

• COMMENT

The world seems to have a case of 'referred pain' - where what you feel in some part of your body is actually coming from somewhere else.

• ANALYSIS

It's shock and ore for the world's biggest miners: While things are looking up at the moment, the industry is throwing the seeds for the next downturn.

• COMMENT

Remember the one about cutting interest rates to lower the dollar? Tell that to the Aussie when it was trading above 77 US cents this morning.

• ANALYSIS

Telstra has embarked on a massive $4.5 billion spending binge - one third of which will be showered on its shareholders and the rest on defending its home turf from competitors that are nipping at its heels.

• COMMENT

Most of Australia's richest got there in industries subject to political favours, hardly any by inventing something new.

• COMMENT

The Commonwealth Bank's result profit was enough to nourish the critics, led by the government which is squirming after its decision not to force a Royal Commission into the big banks' behaviour.

We may have avoided the GFC, but there is still quite a lot of worry among many Australians.

• COMMENT

A recent letter pushed out by Kinetic Super to its 250,000-strong members poses a potential financial disaster.

• COMMENT

The muted growth in retail trade highlights the limitations of slashing interest rates.

• COMMENT

In almost every debate about the gender pay gap, the blame tends to fall on the nation's male employers, but there is often one overlooked factor.

• COMMENT

Australian athletes may be amassing a tally of medal-winning performances but the Seven Network is no shoo-in for financial gold.

• COMMENT

With the annual reporting season seriously underway this week, optimism needs to be tempered by reality.

• COMMENT

The trouble with the Reserve Bank's continuing cuts in the official interest rate, is that it could leave people thinking the economy's in bad shape.

• COMMENT

It is hard to comprehend why the Coalition is so against a royal commission to get to the nub of what is going wrong.

• COMMENT

The importance of the ABC and our commercial media to regional Australia should never be underestimated.

• COMMENT

The most amazing thing about Malcolm Turnbull's bank bashing charade was that he managed not to blush.

• ANALYSIS

Guess where we bought most of our cars from. Here's a hint: it's not Germany, not China and not Japan.

• COMMENT

Given how far Australian and international rates have been falling, mortgage rates ought to be an awful lot lower than they are.

• COMMENT

If borrowers haven't received the full 50 points of the cash rate reductions, it's because they haven't asked for them

• COMMENT

Business investment is lethargic and wages and inflation pressure remain stubbornly absent worldwide. Much of it is due to the fear factor.

• EXCLUSIVE

According to its promotional materials, Aveo Veronica Gardens is 'an enclave of contentedness', however a residents meeting on Monday was anything but.

• COMMENT

It's hard to say that trimming the cash rate to 1.5 per cent on Tuesday will make any positive difference to economic growth or inflation.

• COMMENT

More RBA rate cuts would squeeze margins and make it unlikely homeowners will receive a reduction in full.

• ANALYSIS

Apparent strong house price growth in Sydney and Melbourne is unlikely to dissuade the Reserve Bank from cutting interest rates on Tuesday, in part because it's not what it seems.  

You've heard of belt and braces. You may even have heard of one country, two systems. But have you heard of One Belt, One Road? No? Rest assured, you will.

• COMMENT

Working out who can win from digital disruption is one of the biggest challenges – and the Holy Grail – for businesses, investors and governments.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s move to combine the energy and environment portfolios and place them in the charge of one of the government’s most competent ministers, Josh Frydenberg, might well lead to better policies on climate change.

• COMMENT

On the prospects for China's economy, it's easy to be wrong. We analyse unfamiliar things by comparing them with things we understand, but China is one of a kind.