Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will not rush to impose heavy-handed regulation on financial companies despite the royal commission's scathing assessment, saying he is conscious ill-considered rules could constrict lending and hurt the economy.
Market economists have lifted their GDP forecasts for 2018 even as some flagged the potential pitfalls from slowing house prices and glacial wage growth.
The Finance Sector Union will renew a push to remove all financial measures out of "balanced scorecards".
Australian shares are poised to start the final three months of 2018 by opening lower. Chinese markets are closed all week for holidays.
"It's much easier to think about what a company will be worth three to five years from now than determine what it should sell at today," Leah Zell says.
Kenneth Hayne looks open to banning grandfathered commissions and the separation of banks and wealth. He should also consider a new licensing regime for advisers.
UTS Business School industry professor and former ANZ chief economist Warren Hogan said that tighter credit standards have already had an impact on the market.
Aurizon and other infrastructure owners want compensation for the risk their rail lines and ports could be made obsolete by the shift from fossil fuels.
Everyday borrowers could struggle to get bank loans unless the corporate regulator tells banks how to lend responsibly.
Buried in the 1000-page report is a reference to a "financial regulator assessment board" recommended by former banker David Murray in his review of the financial system.
Bosch Australia now has 20 per cent of the global market in power diodes used in vehicle alternators as it diversified after Australian car making ended.
Catherine Brenner feels vindicated by lack of individual findings made against her in the Hayne interim report.
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Billionaire investor Stan Druckenmiller says the next financial crisis will be worse than the last due to soaring levels of debt.
Australian economists say China's response to tariffs likely will be a key factor for the direction of the Australian dollar in the coming months.
A Fiji-based kava company is hopeful of bringing its products to Australian shores and is intent on making kava an alternative to medical cannabis.
Capital Group portfolio manager Andy Budden believes many investors are underestimating the prospect of a US-led inflation jump.
This is not simply a question of culture or conduct. It may be this sector needs to be broken down and rebuilt before the community can trust it again.
Kenneth Hayne looks open to banning grandfathered commissions and the separation of banks and wealth. He should also consider a new licensing regime for advisers.
The interim report of the Hayne royal commission demonstrates the importance of applying a very traditional concept in understanding motive and result. Follow the money.
The danger entering election season is that politicians try to outdo each other by layering sweeping regulations on banks that constrict credit flow to households and business
Despite ASIC constantly crying poor, the Hayne report shows that it has simply not enforced the laws that governments have enacted.
At a cost of almost $20,000 per person, regulatory reform is urgently required to cut the amount of red tape faced by Australian businesses.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has given the government wriggle room to relax its strict budget spending rules ahead of the federal election due by mid next year.
Brexit negotiations could trigger a UK election, forcing Atlassian, Macquarie Group, BHP and Rio Tinto to deal with UK Labour's "radical" employee share ownership policies sooner than expected.
Scott Morrison told ABC's Insiders program that Australia would meet its international climate obligations easily despite the most recent official government projections saying the nation will fall short
Elon Musk has told Tesla employees that the company was on the cusp of making money, hours after he and the carmaker reached a settlement with the US that steps up oversight of the chief executive officer's communications of material information.
President Donald Trump said he and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un 'fell in love' but Pyongyang warns that no denuclearisation is planned.
Prime Minister Theresa May starts the Tory party conference seeking unity. Her former foreign minister says her Brexit plans are simply 'deranged'.
Germans were little impressed by visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who defied protocal showing support for an extremist Muslim group.
This year, Russians have been given a full range of choice in newly published annual calendars featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin. Some were delighted, others remained sceptical.
NAB and Westpac are launching charm offensives targeting property buyers with lower discount rates and incentives after copping a caning from the banking commission about lending practices.
Reliance Worldwide won't have it all its own way as it tries to disrupt the plumbing supplies markets in the US and Europe.
New Zealand's sovereign wealth fund is prepared to take risk but it is very picky about the active stockpickers it allows to manage its money.
When Zhang Yiming first shopped the idea of a news aggregation app powered by artificial intelligence six years ago, investors including Sequoia Capital were sceptical.
Tesla and Elon Musk have agreed to pay $US20 million ($27 million) each to financial regulators and the billionaire will step down as the company's chairman but remain as chief executive.
The MFAA says any call by the Hayne inquiry to eliminate broker commissions will have "unintended consequences" by reducing competition for home loans.
Kenneth Hayne's findings of "dishonesty and greed" within financial planning will exacerbate a mass exodus already under way and send the value of advice businesses plummeting further, an expert says.
Singapore Airlines explains why the world's longest commercial flight route will work this time.
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