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.

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.

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.