Funding fears in US tax 'repatriation'
Local banks are analysing the possibility of a funding source being crimped by a measure in the US Republican tax overhaul on foreign profits.
Melbourne sells as Sydney keeps cooling
Melbourne posted its second biggest auction weekend this year, as sellers get out ahead of a Sydney-style slowdown.
How to buy bitcoin without buying bitcoin
Bitcoin advocates continue to shrug off the scepticism around the cryptocurrency, despite supporters admitting it shows signs of a classic investment mania.
Labor rejects Gallagher citizenship case link to MPs
Labor signals it won't automatically accept an adverse High Court citizenship decision against Katy Gallagher as a precedent that knocks out other Labor MPs.
Coal's future queried as AGL to shut Liddell
The government has dropped its scepticism about AGL Energy's decision to close its decrepit Liddell coal power plant in 2022 and looks set to accept the move.
Heitman taps into super appetite for property debt
Global fund manager Heitman is hoping to raise half a billion dollars in Australia for a private debt fund to finance US property deals.
Resources the only hope for ASX in 2018
For local investors, there were two unfortunate events in 2017: The major S&P ASX 200 struggled while Wall Street shot the lights out. Will 2018 be the same?
Spring carnival a TV winner for Tabcorp
Tabcorp and Racing.com had strong broadcast numbers for the spring carnival.
Package deal: the fight for the future of retail is in delivery
The rise of online shopping is helping to push parcel delivery volumes to 45 million in December, with Australia Post both friend and foe to Amazon.
AGL resists PM to ditch coal for cheaper gas, wind, solar power
AGL Energy has rejected Turnbull government pressure to extend the life of the coal-fired Liddell power station.
Aussie brands urged to harness daigou power
Companies struggling to grow domestic sales have been urged to harness the power of the multibillion-dollar daigou channel as demand from Chinese consumers for authentic Australian brands soars.
Bill Ackman facing insider trading trial
Activist investor and high profile hedge fund manager Bill Ackman likely to face a jury trial over claims he engaged in insider trading.
Central bankers set the stage for 2018
Central banks from Australia to Europe, Canada and the US have a chance this week to bolster market bulls as 2018 approaches.
Bitcoin a 'bubble', says NZ Reserve Bank boss
Bitcoin's spectacular gains look like a speculative bubble and the cryptocurrency is too unstable to be useful in the future, New Zealand's central banker said.
Credible result for new tech float
The biggest technology float on the ASX in 2017 has ended its first day of trading up almost 10 per cent.
Is Royal Dutch Shell worth buying? Here's the good oil.
The oil major's share price has risen steadily in the past two years, but is still attractive at current levels if energy prices remain robust
Opinion
CEOs to ramp up spending on artificial intelligence
CEOs are grappling with the growing impact of big data and global competitors like Amazon, but they're fighting back.
Best and worst calls of 2017
It's that time of the year again when we reflect on what we got right and wrong. At the start of 2017 we figured there was 50 per cent chance the RBA would raise rates.
Has Turnbull reached a turning point?
This was meant to be a bad week for Malcolm Turnbull. It turned out to be one of his best. But can the Coalition hold it together internally?
The 'nonsense' of the wages debate
Macquarie chief economist Ric Deverell has a reassuring message: the world is not crazy and the laws of macroeconomics as we understand them still hold.
PM's blowhard China policy will cost us
China won't stop buying our iron ore because we exaggerate their influence. But China's consumers might decide that Californian wine tastes fine.
LNP leadership a three-way battle
The leadership of the Queensland Liberal National Party looks set to be a three-way contest when the party meets on Tuesday.
'Shocked' China ups ante as spy rift widens
China has accused the Turnbull government of pandering to irresponsible Australian media in its second sharply-worded rebuke in a week.
Nobel Prize for Australian anti-nuclear group
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is the first Australian Nobel Laureate for peace and will accept the prestigious award in Norway on Sunday.
Palaszczuk rolls Curtis Pitt
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has dumped Curtis Pitt as treasurer despite her election promise to keep him on, installing factional warrior Jackie Trad to the crucial position.
US tax package could hit foreign-owned banks
Proposals before Congression will penalise foreign institutions because of how they structure their global operations.
The US economy may be getting too hot
For the first time on record, employers have added jobs every month for more than seven years, or 86 months, to be precise.
Koch-backed US lobby splits over climate change
A business group backed by the billionaire climate denialists now finds itself at a crossroads.
Sri Lanka pockets $292m for giving port to Chinese firm
Sri Lanka formally handed over commercial activities in its main southern port to a Chinese company as part of the "Belt and Road" initiativw.
Only the UK compromised in Brexit talks
The UK will be fleeced in this divorce. Why not just abandon the whole enterprise, writes Leonid Bershidsky.
Personal Finance
Bitcoin prices diverge wildly as investors pile in
Bitcoin prices diverged dramatically across global exchanges on Friday as hyperdeflation and frenzied demand drove the price to over $23,000 a coin.
Super saver scheme in time for Christmas
First home buyers will get a tax saving of between $5000 and $6000 after one of the government's key housing affordability measures cleared Federal Parliament on Thursday.
Self-managed funds move into bitcoin
Financial adviser Liam Shorte fields more than 20 questions a day from investors thinking about joining the Bitcoin party.
Small cat, big multibillion-dollar success
How do you go from selling coin purses to having your image on aeroplanes and running for president of the United States?
From detention to high distinction, arise Sir Frank!
Seventy-two years after being imprisoned in a British detention camp as an illegal immigrant, Frank Lowy was been dubbed Knight Bachelor of the British Empire.
Harry Triguboff's secret past revealed
Australia's second richest man was almost stopped from fleeing from China to Australia in 1948 by a government decision that split his family forever.
Nikki Thomas quits Magellan
Magellan's head of research, Nikki Thomas, has left the homegrown international fund manager after 10 years.
Lifestyle
Rush to sue The Daily Telegraph for defamation
Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush has sued The Daily Telegraph for defamation, after the tabloid newspaper has published two front stories alleging he has been accused of "inappropriate behaviour" and "inappropriate touching" during the Sydney Theatre Company's production of King Lear.
