When the rest of the world rings in the New Year, India's central bank will be grappling with a unique situation: how to deal with more than 23 billion worthless bank notes?

Two years ago, Oppo and Vivo couldn't crack the top five in China's smartphone market. Now they're on top after elbowing Apple aside.

US President-elect Donald Trump has released a video laying out actions he'll take on his first day in office on January 20, including withdrawing the US from a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

Japanese advertising giant Dentsu is considering dropping a principle set by a former president encouraging staff to stick to a goal even to the point of death after a 24-year-old employee committed suicide because of overwork.

If investors don't bite at the Snap IPO, about $42 billion of unicorn wealth held by eight co-founders of Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Uber could crater.

More than 85 per cent of Tesla shareholders have voted in favour of its controversial SolarCity deal.

Analysts warn the iconic jeweller's busines might suffer from its close association with the real estate mogul and his home.

The founder of a Chinese brand of high-tech toilets called Trump said he had no intention of soiling the name of America's next president.

• COMMENT

Would you trust Donald Trump with $US20 trillion ($26.6 trillion) of debt? How about lending him another $US7 trillion or so on top of that? You wouldn't be alone in thinking twice about the prospect.

A former Newcastle woman is facing more than 35 years in a United States jail after being accused of being involved in one of the biggest insurance frauds in Californian history.

Futures plummeted, then stocks rallied: The sharemarket is easily rattled, but it can also be easily seduced.

• ANALYSIS

When Donald Trump starts work in the Oval Office in January, he will have more potential business and financial conflicts of interest than any other president in US history.

​Warren Buffett is once again the second-richest person on the planet, and he has President-elect Donald Trump to thank for it.

• COMMENT

Sorry, but I find the ascent of Donald Trump more fascinating than frightening. If it's all going to be so terrible, how exactly is he going to make it happen?

"I for one give him my most open mind and wish him great success in his service to the country."

As protests against President-elect Donald Trump roil cities across America, people have found a corporate logo to symbolise their anger and dismay. It's emblazoned on the side of their shoes.

• COMMENT

Donald Trump's big win might seem a big loss for China. However, his policies will ultimately work to China's advantage.

President-elect Donald Trump plans to remake financial regulation, promising to dismantle the 2010 Dodd-Frank law, the response to the financial crisis.

US President-elect Donald Trump's tax plan will have flow-on effects, including reducing the amount of tax paid by US multinationals in high-tax countries like Australia, experts say.

Here's a surprising conclusion: Donald Trump appears likely to enact a fun-house mirror version of what many liberal economists have advocated for years - Keynesian fiscal stimulus.

Silicon Valley figures are already freaking out, but there's one company in particular that soon might find itself in President Trump's crosshairs.

​Donald Trump's stunning victory is already creating winners and losers in markets and governments around the world, from miners in America's Appalachian Mountains heartened by his devotion to coal, to Mexican peso traders stunned by the sell-off.

A Trump administration could take the lid off coal and fracking regulations, begin a massive repair of US roads and bridges, rebuild defence, repeal the Dodd-Frank financial reform act and kill Obamacare.

Even before the result was clear the prospect came as a profound shock to financial markets.

Markets rallied off its lows, with traders saying Trump's acceptance speech was balanced and conciliatory.

The bearish sentiment that engulfed European equities in recent weeks is being vindicated.

• COMMENT

The rise in anti-establishment sentiment is not a US phenomenon, political culture is the product of our time.

The Australian sharemarket lost more than $30 billion in value as Donald Trump looked increasingly likely to be the next US president.

• COMMENT

The GFC was quite scary at times. President Trump worries me much more.