Posted
Donald Trump has promised to boost US manufacturing and punish companies for moving jobs overseas, during a visit to a South Carolina Boeing factory to celebrate the unveiling of the company's latest Dreamliner jet.
Topics: world-politics, business-economics-and-finance, industry, us-elections, government-and-politics, united-states
Posted
| UpdatedPresident Donald Trump promises to boost US manufacturing and punish companies for moving jobs overseas, during a visit to a South Carolina Boeing factory to celebrate the unveiling of the company's latest Dreamliner jet.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, industry, environmental-policy, environment, air-transport, us-elections, united-states
Posted
In this update:
Topics: business-economics-and-finance
Posted
In this update:
Topics: business-economics-and-finance
Posted
| UpdatedPremium costs are set to jump nearly 5% in April after Health Minister Greg Hunt signed off on the latest hike. Medibank Private has conceded customer acquisition is slowing as more disillusioned customers change insurers or drop their cover altogether. Medibank Private CEO Craig Drummond speaks to Alicia.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, australia
Posted
| UpdatedDonald Trump claims credit for wall street's jump, do the biggest US investors agree? Vanguard investment CEO Bill McNabb speaks to Alicia.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, australia
Posted
| UpdatedClimate change could threaten the stability of the entire financial system, the prudential regulator warns, as it prepares to apply climate change "stress tests" to the nation's financial institutions.
Topics: climate-change, business-economics-and-finance, regulation, sydney-2000
Posted
Carbon pricing, new LNG supplies from US shale gas, and coal demand are all on BP's radar as the world moves towards decarbonisation.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, business-economics-and-finance, oil-and-gas, perth-6000
Posted
In this update: Strong growth in home lending and more customer deposits have seen ANZ increase its quarterly profit; Virgin Australia has reported a lost of 36 million dollars fro the six months to the end of December; Mining and energy stocks have pulled down the local share market.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance
Posted
| UpdatedSamsung Group chief Jay Y Lee is arrested over his alleged role in a corruption scandal that led parliament to impeach President Park Geun-hye, a South Korean court says.
Topics: government-and-politics, corruption, company-news, business-economics-and-finance, korea-republic-of, asia
Posted
In this update: Australia's biggest telecom provider Telstra, has posted a shock slide in first half profits - the worst fall in five years.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance
Posted
| UpdatedImagine if you could walk into a bank and secure a home loan with three years' worth of rental receipts instead of a deposit. It might sound crazy, but it's one suggestion that's been put forward by a federal MP for solving Australia's housing affordability crisis.
Topics: housing, business-economics-and-finance, housing-industry, australia
Posted
In this update: the ASX lost most of its early gains that took the market to a fresh 21 month high following another record breaking session on Wall Street; Australia’s jobless rate has eased slightly to 5.7% in January even as full-time job creation slumped; and Telstra shares have dropped 6 percent after the company announced a 14 percent drop in half year profit to $1.8 billion dollars along with a slip in revenue.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance
Posted
| UpdatedAustralia's biggest telecom provider is a company under pressure. Telstra's blaming rivals for loss of mobile revenue as customers dump fixed line phones and higher costs to access NBN customers. Telstra CEO Andy Penn speaks to Elysse.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, australia
Posted
| UpdatedAn early rally pushed shares to a 21-month high but Telstra's result saw those gains quickly reversed. Evan Lucas from IG Markets speaks to Elysse.
Topics: markets, business-economics-and-finance, stockmarket, australia
Posted
| UpdatedThe BHP-Billiton spin-off, South-32, has announced a return to profitability with a $620 million profit - an almost $3 billion turnaround from the previous result. CEO Graham Kerr speaks to Elysse.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, australia
Posted
The acrimonious battle for control of Tasmanian dairy group Bellamy's takes a new twist after dissident shareholder Jan Cameron admits being aligned to a mysterious offshore trust that has been attempting to roll the board.
Topics: company-news, business-economics-and-finance, stockmarket, tas
Posted
| UpdatedThe power company that provides a third of Queensland's electricity using some of Australia's most advanced coal-fired generators says new technology is not game-changing and clean coal is too expensive to operate.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, coal, government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, alternative-energy, callide-4715, australia
Posted
In this update: the Australian share market has been dragged lower by some poor company results.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance
Posted
In this update: Telstra has announced a 14 per cent drop in half year profit to $1.8 billion dollars. The energy firm Origin has reported a net loss of $1.7 billion for the six months to the end of December. The latest market news.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance
Posted
| UpdatedLet's just say the latest national snapshot of the state of renting a home in Australia does not paint a pretty picture. That's putting it lightly. It's dire.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, housing-industry, industry, business-economics-and-finance, australia
Posted
| UpdatedMalcolm Turnbull is particularly critical of the SA Government for what he describes as its renewable energy scheme, but it's the Commonwealth's scheme, says energy expert Danny Price.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, business-economics-and-finance, industry, electricity-energy-and-utilities, alternative-energy, australia
Posted
| UpdatedThe board of troubled baby formula maker Bellamy's will see off the challenge from Tasmanian shareholder Jan Cameron, the company chairman says.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, food-and-beverage, bicheno-7215
Posted
| UpdatedThe "patchwork" of different renewable energy targets from the states and territories will "create widespread power system security problems", according to Danny Price, a respected expert who helped design Australia's national energy market rules.
Topics: government-and-politics, electricity-energy-and-utilities, alternative-energy, federal-government, business-economics-and-finance, emissions-trading, australia
Posted
| UpdatedMany companies are encouraging their workers to be happy, but psychologists argue this fixation can be more stressful than liberating.
Topics: happiness, emotions, community-and-society, work, management, business-economics-and-finance, australia