Shares are set for a rough start this week.

Markets: Resources retreat hits ASX

Investors were in a sour mood, flocking to the relative safety of gold miners as energy names and the big banks led a broad ASX sell-off.

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Picture taken by Adrianne Harrowfield. The Age. AFR company results. Portrait of Ross Barker, managing director of ...

AFIC wary of banks but not Amazon

AFIC thinks the big banks are in for a much tougher time but that fears around the potential impact of online giant Amazon on the Australian retail market may be overdone.

Now Abbott returns to killing the RET

An emboldened Tony Abbott has switched his focus to torpedoing the Renewable Energy Target and the government's plans to introduce a Clean E...