Treasurer Scott Morrison has ramped up warnings of a temporary slump in economic growth as the Reserve Bank of Australia shrugged off the need for additional interest rate cuts to support income-squeezed households.
Opportunities exist in some ASX-listed small caps but the sentiment-driven nature of the sector means stock-picking is key.
The message from the Reserve Bank is clear. Don't panic about growth, inflation or employment.
A 40 per cent plunge in the price of sugar is being driven by a looming supply surplus and speculators shorting the market.
Continued selling in the big banks spread to all other major sectors, just about wiping out the last of this year's gains.
LNG players worldwide have been set on edge by the sudden rift between LNG export powerhouse Qatar and four of its Gulf associates, with Aus...
Shares are back where they started the year after the ASX suffers close to its worst session in 2017 amid almost indiscriminate selling, whi...
Forty years ago, China was a feudal economy; today it's the world's second largest. There are more ways than the US model to achieve progres...
Perhaps it's time that highly profitable Apple should try to become a little more like profit-challenged Amazon.
Goldman Sachs refused a Caracas request to convert $US5b in sovereign bonds, but then bought other Venezuelan securities for pennies on the ...
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