Caution reigned on the sharemarket, with the ASX ending lower for a fifth straight session.

Fund managers say the lack of detail in Donald Trump speech to Congress leaves markets vulnerable to a correction.

Australia has avoided a second consecutive quarter of negative economic growth, rising by 1.1 per cent in the December quarter and beating market expectations.

Corporate Australia may have lost the debate on tax reform, says Australian Institute of Company Directors chairwoman Elizabeth Proust.

Markets are increasingly open to the United States lifting interest rates this month after two Federal Reserve officials argued there was a strong case for rates to be higher.

There's no question that it's been a hard year for Kalanick and Uber - or really, a bad year compressed down into an awful three months. And it keeps getting worse.

There might have been a bit of heart burn at James Packer's casino operator, Crown, Wednesday morning as its stock dived just as news emerged it is considering a fire sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of toys that had been used to entertain its Chinese high rollers.

High earners are negatively gearing their way out of the Medicare levy.

The ASX continues to wallow as Telstra trades ex-divided, while an initial Trump-inspired jump in Wall St futures quickly fades.

Bullish and cautious aren't usually words found in the same sentence, but coking coal miners are "excited" about the outlook.