A class action against troubled law firm Slater and Gordon faces another hurdle with lawyers for shareholders being accused of a major conflict of interest.

Outlawing employer requests for cash back from employees and higher penalties will fail to stamp out exploitation, a leading migration labour lawyer has warned.

(Bloomberg) -- PSA Group agreed to buy General Motors Co.'s Opel unit in a transaction valued at 2.2 billion euro ($2.3 billion), creating Europe's second-largest carmaker in a bid to better compete in the region's saturated market.

Retail sales rebounded in January after two months of tepid outcomes, although the underlying pulse was one of sluggish household consumption.

Shares reversed early losses after news of a draft Republican party healthcare bill inspired hopes of an end to gridlock in Washington.

Australia's banking watchdog has flagged concerns about commercial property lending, sounding a warning about falling lending standards at domestic and foreign banks.

The RBA sounds a bit more upbeat on the economy, enough to give the Aussie a push, while the ASX reverses early losses on news of movement in Washington.

Bunnings has pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to 45 charges of false and misleading advertising filed against it by the NZ consumer watchdog.

Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev has defended an internal report into the bank's troubled life insurance arm, Comminsure, despite admitting no customers were interviewed as part of the process.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has held the cash rate steady at 1.5 per cent amid concern about what another cut would do to the housing market and amid signs the economy is picking up.

Nine News has received a red card from the media regulator for a two minute report on Ku-ring-gai former Mayor Cheryl Szatow, that was biased and at times unfactual.

The tidal shift towards passive investing has active managers warily eyeing the steady rise of smart beta strategies.

Visitors are slowly returning to Ardent Leisure's theme parks after four people died on Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapids ride in October, but revenue is still down.

A consortium including wealthy private investors Joel Freeman and his son, Jeremy, are offloading a major infill development site at the gateway of the Yarra Valley Wine region.

​Copper fell to its lowest in a month on a surge in warehouse stocks and zinc hit a seven-week low.

Chinese iron ore futures fell for a third straight day, pressured by a rising mountain of the raw material at China's ports.

It will be a few more weeks before AFL chairman, Mike Fitzpatrick, hangs up his boots, but he doesn't need to worry about things getting a little boring following his departure from the big game.

Why is it that a mother caring for her children produces no "measured" economic value, but the same mother hiring others to look after her children does?

Former union boss Jim Metcher has announced his retirement as a legal investigation finds he had a duty to disclose a domestic violence matter in his applications for right of entry permits in 2009 and 2010.

Senior executives within ANZ's institutional bank including the former managing director all resigned at around the same time the bank was subject to an investigation by the corporate watchdog over the alleged rigging the bank bill swap rate by traders at the bank.