The Australian dollar touched a new nine-month high overnight, making another bid above US77¢ in an otherwise quiet trading night ahead of key Chinese economic data.

Coles has agreed to pay $10 million in penalties after admitting to unconscionably treating eight suppliers.

The lack of a credible, long-term mechanism to achieve Australia's emissions reduction commitments has created uncertainty and deterred investment in the sector, a key energy market regulator says.

The Australian market looks set to open higher, as market optimism turns positive after overseas stock markets rose overnight.

Fairfax Media and John Singleton's Macquarie Radio network are very close to finalising a $200 million talkback radio merger, less than a year after talks collapsed in bitter circumstances.

Despite slumping to new four-year lows against the US dollar and also dropping against other currencies in the past days, the Australian dollar still hasn’t troughed, analysts believe.

Amendments that threatened to weaken a bill to protect vulnerable workers from underpayment and exploitation were under "delicate" negotiation on Tuesday night.

Flight Centre has warned that pretax earnings could fall as much as 4 per cent this financial year due to a slowdown in spending on leisure travel in Australia in recent months.

Trading volumes for commercial property in the Asia Pacific region are likely to remain at record highs next year, with an estimated US$200 billion to $250 billion looking for quality assets, JLL's Asia Pacific chief executive Alastair Hughes says.

New targeted restrictions on lending and a depreciating renminbi have sparked the biggest sell-off in Chinese equities in more than five years.

Good school results and high university participation don't tell the whole story.

It could be another decade before a new conventional wisdom emerges.

Sliding prices for BHP's prime commodities are challenging the case for the "South32" demerger.

It is rare for one man to triumph against the establishment, especially when he has taken on a major insolvency firm and one of the country’s blue chip law firms.

Investors in failed managed investment scheme Great Southern face bankruptcy and losing their homes in the weeks following Christmas, after a Supreme Court approved a $23 million settlement between investors and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank.

'Tis the season for outlooks, so amid a flood of worrying to outright gloomy forecasts for the coming year, Saxo Bank has once again flagged its most "outrageous predictions" for global markets.

RBA governor admits deflationary forces are facing Australia but says they won't be serious. Is there reason for concern?

The telecommunications industry and competition watchdog have been asked to help develop new conditions to stop Telstra getting unfair advantages from NBN Co following the completion of a new deal on Sunday.

The move by the banking regulator, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, to fire a shot across the bows of home lenders to curb riskier practices has two important ramifications.

Wall Street heavyweights are tempering expectations for their investors as trading revenue starts to fall after a bumper 12 months.

The ASX 200 eked out its third straight day of gains, closing 0.1% higher, up 9.2 points to 7387.1 despite fresh global concerns over rising inflation and lower growth.

The superjumbo may not be around for long anymore, with airlines preferring smaller, more fuel-efficient planes and not placing a single order this year.

The federal government is locking in a wholesale price cap on internet services providers looking to take on the NBN Co with their own high-speed rollout.

After 2½ years of steadily rising prices, the housing market appears to be running out of puff.

Australians pay far less tax than they believe a new report finds, and certainly far less tax than the Treasurer thinks they do.