The Dow rose past 21,000 for the first time as investors grew increasingly confident global economic growth is accelerating.

China has ordered steel and aluminium producers in 28 cities to slash output during winter, amid a war on smog.

Capital city house prices have grown at their strongest annual rate in almost seven years after interest rate cuts and investor demand lit a fire under property values.

Australia's top economic bureaucrat has begged the government not to spend the coming windfall from soaring coal and iron ore prices, saying if it did it would repeat the mistakes of prime minister John Howard and treasurer Peter Costello in the early 2000s.

Uber is facing a perfect storm.

We've been calling these products 'milk' for decades. Will we have to stop?

The Australian sharemarket jumped more than 1 per cent to its best day of 2017, following strong off-shore leads.

The euphoric Trump trade has been replaced by solid global economic data signalling the global economy is on the mend.

Shares record their best day in over three months as investors surf the wave of optimism that swept through the market overnight thanks to a renewed faith in the Trump trade, overwhelming the drag of some big names like Woolies and Lendlease trading ex-dividend.

Fears about Chinese investment in Australia naively exaggerate the amount of control the Chinese government has over Chinese corporations, according to an optimistic new report which seeks to "mythbust" public and media views about how Chinese business operates. 

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.