The Dow Jones index briefly hit a new record of 23,000 but has since retreated slightly, while the Australian share market is headed for a slightly lower open.

Will Australia's housing market be the same in the aftermath of the pandemic?

A senior air force officer whose career was in part inspired by the Apollo 11 moon landing will become Australia's first space commander next year.

The deputy leader of the Nationals says the party has struck a deal to allow more foreign workers into Australia to work on farms, hinting that an agriculture-specific visa could soon be announced.

TELSTRA is in talks to buy Asian undersea cable operator Pacnet in a deal that could be worth as much as $1 billion.

CHINA’S gross domestic product turned out to be 3.4 per cent larger last year than originally announced.

Millions of investors have learnt the hard way this week that bull runs do not last forever.

THE big four banks have lost their appetite to lend to greenfield toll road projects.

TELSTRA has signed a $390m contract to plan and design services to support the NBN rollout, for a term of up to four years.

THE slide in oil prices has caused sharp losses among some of Wall Street’s biggest names — the latest in a series of bad bets made by star investors.

At a virtual World Economic Forum, Mr Xi urges nations to remove all barriers to trade while working together on coronavirus vaccine research and distribution.

Disney is having a major cultural moment, driven by shrewd deal-making, clever marketing and our thirst for spin-offs and nostalgia.

Australian shares have ended the week on a downer, after a mixed bag of a week marked by vaccine rollout news and US pandemic relief.

ORIGIN Energy has secured a $750 million “liquidity buffer” to protect the business from the falling oil price.

CHINESE manufacturing has contracted for the first time in seven months in December, raising questions over growth prospects for the giant economy.

LEIGHTON will announce a sale of its services business this afternoon after the construction giant this morning entered a trading halt, sources said.

ASIC says the chance of it backing a plan to rescue Planet Platinum is the same as “a snowflake in hell”.

The price of iron ore has crashed to a 10-year low of $44.10 a tonne after a stunning 11 per cent plunge overnight.

Arguably Ziggy Switkowski’s major achievement at NBN Co has been to depoliticise the project.

China's foreign ministry says Australia is "purposely setting up obstacles" to make it harder for Chinese companies to invest.