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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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