DESPITE the doom and gloom in the commodity sector, some big market names have had a bumper year.

The chances that the release of Quindell’s accounts could quickly clear the air for Slater & Gordon have diminished.

LISTED healthcare providers took a battering on the local bourse yesterday.

AUSTRALIA’s economy won’t grow strongly enough next year to warrant an interest rate rise, RBA board member John Edwards says.

It is an offence in Queensland to carry an unconcealed gel blaster in public from February 1, with police urging owners of the toy guns to be fully aware of their responsibilities or face harsher penalties including jail time.

The Reserve Bank is holding the line on low interest rates for years to come, but some economists warn the risks of an inflation "rebirth" are rising, an issue the US central bank will be discussing this week.

ABC Radio Adelaide takes a look at what has happened at Sanjeev Gupta's previous acquisitions ahead of the revitalisation of Whyalla's Arrium steelworks.

THE crumbling Pie Face fast-food chain has been hit with a second lawsuit in the US.

South-east Queensland drivers filling up their tanks this weekend will be paying the highest prices of all the capital cities in Australia for unleaded petrol, with the fuel cycle showing although prices are slow to rise, they are even slower to come down again.

An 80-year-old pensioner on Queensland's Sunshine Coast lost his life savings in an online scam, which uses identities like Dick Smith and trusted brands like the ABC to promote them.

The typical Australian is now worth more than $260,000, knocking Switzerland off the top of the global rich list.

Michelle Rex signed up to a plan in 2007 and made fortnightly payments totalling $8,000, thinking it was a savings plan. By the time she spoke to a financial counsellor, she was already $2,000 over her maximum payout amount.

RUSSIA’S central bank has announced a dramatic hike of its key rate from 10.5 to 17 per cent to try to halt an out-of-control slide in the rouble.

SUPER funds are forecast to end 2014 up by between five and eight per cent — less than half last year’s return.

The Australian dollar is slightly higher after oil prices started to stage a recovery.

More than 1,000 people flock to the KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa in search of diamonds.

Construction on Sydney's newest city centre will begin before the end of the year, with the NSW government releasing first images of how it will look.

While most coal-fired generators are demolished after their use-by date, the defunct Wallerawang power station in central-western NSW is being repurposed to help with Australia's renewable energy future.

SUNRICE has forecast a 40 per cent lift in full-year profit.

Chinese retailer JD.com could disrupt not only Australia’s bricks-and-mortar shops but its online sector as well.