Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe has dashed hopes of a further cut in interest rates, pleading for people to "focus on other things other than quarter of a per cent moves in the cash rate".

This is interesting: the Fair Work Commission has pretty much agreed with the Productivity Commission's recommendations on penalty rates, so penalty rates should be sharply higher for everyone on shift work.

The chief executive of Mercer, one of Australia's biggest super fund administrators, has urged small funds to merge with bigger funds or risk folding in the next 12 months.

Ahmed Fahour is stepping out the door at Australia Post in July, but it will take another decade for the organisation to deliver his final package.

You can finally check when you will get the NBN and what sort of technology you will be receiving.

The Turnbull Government proposed company tax cut would cut national income for years before it boosted it and would never be self-funding, a new analysis from the Grattan Institute has found.

All high income Australians would pay the 1 to 1.5 per cent Medicare Levy Surcharge under a budget proposal that would raise a breathtaking $4 billion per year, more than 6 times the net amount saved in the first Turnbull budget.

It is the battle between a businessman who lost a billion-dollar birthright and his family, who didn't.

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil is moving to cast off the last shackles of government influence at iron-ore giant Vale SA -- but not before replacing the CEO with someone more politically palatable.

Investors are losing patience with Cromwell in its battle for control of the $2.7 billion Investa Office Fund, with some saying it its getting to the "unreasonable" level.

Australian retailers are se to face a new entrant with many South African-based brands now discovering that there is a new market near their door step, with a similar climate, time zone and consumer outlook.

Strong earnings results from reporting companies failed to stem the tide of a falling market, the big miners and the bigger banks pulling the index into the red.

Australia could record its first current account surplus since the mid-1970s this year, economists say.

Shares slide again despite big gains in QBE, Aristocrat and Lendlease after their profit reports, as waning enthusiasm for the Trump trade drags on big banks and miners.

There are several takeaways from Warren Buffett's letter to shareholders for Australian investors.

Global construction and infrastructure group Lendlease will look to its construction and development pipleline for growth in the coming year, boosted by the strong office leasing markets.

The clock is now ticking on the financial future of the ailing law firm Slater and Gordon, with a 90-day deadline to finalise talks with its bankers

Insurance giant QBE has reported a 5 per cent jump in net profit in the year to December 31 and announced a $1 billion share buyback ahead of expected earnings growth.

Forget the banks, they're relative amateurs. If you want outrage, check out the private health insurance rip-off as demonstrated by NIB and Medibank.

Berkshire Hathaway increased its stake in iPhone maker Apple to about 133 million shares, chairman Warren Buffett told CNBC.

BHP Billiton and striking workers at its Escondida copper mine have resumed talks in an effort to reach a wage agreement.

Fortescue Metals and Apollo Global are reportedly among the bidders for Wesfarmers's Australian coal operations.

Companies mentioned the weather 354 times but fund managers wonder whether the answer is really blowing in the wind.

Brisbane-based Qantas engineers have spent the best part of the past month installing sensitive atmospheric monitoring sensors on a Hawaiian Airlines Airbus A330 in a bid to fill a major gap in global climate research.

Company profits have surged to record highs at the same time wages suffered their sharpest decline in eight years.