It is one of the largest undeveloped copper deposits in the world. Now, the smaller shareholder in the project, located in Papua New Guinea, has cried 'foul', warning that a planned board spill will give the Chinese government control.

Ray Dalio shook up management at his Bridgewater Associates for the second time within a year.

No one on earth has lost more in the past months - from a dollar and cents standpoint, at least - than Mexican telecom billionaire Carlos Slim, Donald Trump' nemesis south of the wall he's planning to build.

They were the market darlings while large-cap stocks struggled, but small caps have given investors grief this reporting season.

The maker of the disappearing photo app that relies upon the fickle favour of millennials jumped in its trading debut.

NSW should place a cap on the amount of thermal coal it can mine and plan an orderly phase-out of the industry within a decade to do its bit to avoid catastrophic climate change, NSW Greens say.

The witness statements from a $211m lawsuit against a pair of billionaire property developers, Nick and Christian Candy, read like a film script. The allegations are so lurid they could be made into a thriller — although audiences might have some trouble believing the more colourful scenes.

The corporate watchdog is not just taking on the big end of town when it comes to the crackdown on media industry balance sheets.

Rio Tinto's former chief executive Sam Walsh has had part of his retirement payments he was due to receive withheld.

The decision to stop fast food businesses hiring overseas workers on 457 visas has been welcomed but will do little to alleviate high youth unemployment, academics and unions warn.

Les thought buying hearing aids would be a simple exercise. But he soon found out otherwise.

The ASX finished the week in the red as investors remain sceptical of the global growth narrative.

There's an extraordinary battle underway in a relatively small listed investment company that tangentially involves the well-known names of James Packer and Peter Switzer.

At its current price, Snap makes its much bigger rival Facebook - not to mention internet stalwarts such as Google, Amazon and even Netflix - look like bargain-basement "value" stocks.

Shares erase a fair chunk of yesterday's big gains, led down by the big miners after Wall St exuberance faded.