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.

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

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

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