An unexpected rally from energy stocks wasn't enough in the end as shares slumped to a third day of losses, with miners and banks weighing on a topsy-turvy market.

As an accountant turned journo, I try to ensure the creative accounting used to make the budget figures look better than they really are doesn't go unexposed. But I've never seen a con as audacious as the proposed medical research future fund.

Big banks will resist moves to make compulsory comprehensive credit reporting, which would force them to provide customer credit histories to emerging peer-to-peer lenders seeking to offer risk-based loan pricing.

According to RBA governor Glenn Stevens, we still get at least 17,000 TVs for every tonne of iron ore. So go and have a confident Christmas.

Most of us spend more each week on petrol than any other single household item.

The billionaires have joined other business giants backing a start-up that makes meat from self-producing animal cells.

The ASX 200 has dropped below its October low as the rout in energy stocks looks to have broadened into a wider resources sector sell-off.

A resurgent US dollar will sink the Aussie in coming months, despite the chance of an RBA rate rise in early 2018, strategists predict.

Toys ‘R’ Us, which once had nearly 50 stores across Australia, has been handed over to administrators again, seven years after the first time.

But even after a regulatory bath, Australian casinos can still make a healthy return.  Behaving is just another cost of doing business.

You don't hear much in Australia about a significant shift in applied economics, could it be taxing higher earners helps, not hurts, the economy.

Shares have halved early losses as better than expected local jobs data lifts spirits, and the dollar, but the overnight tumble in oil prices is still weighing heavily on the energy sector.

Shares close lower despite an afternoon recovery, with a rallying CBA tempering losses among the other banks, while miners forged higher.

The Russian stock market is set to partially reopen after being shut for a month -- the longest break since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The question is what will the price action actually indicate.

Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens' wish for a further dive in the Aussie dollar might be granted.

Shares close higher after investors responded to the Murray report by driving bank stocks higher, while Qantas surges on an earnings update and Coke announces job losses.

Timbercorp bought back several million dollars worth of projects from favoured investors while hard sell continued on others.

It has been a historically polarising energy source but the likes of Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are throwing their considerable weight behind nuclear power.

Big in the ’70s and ’80s, talk of stagflation has reared its head again. What is it, and are we heading for a new era of it?

Authorities are investigating members of an alleged "fake debt bankruptcy fraud ring" accused of using sham debts to shield millions of dollars in assets from Timbercorp creditors and investors.