A $650 million revamp of Melbourne's popular Queen Victoria Market is "at risk" because the state government hasn't approved key planning guidelines covering its development, Melbourne's Lord Mayor says.

Singapore-based investors have snapped up the 396-room Hilton South Wharf hotel in Melbourne for $230 million in the biggest hotel deal so far this year.

Macroeconomic events have largely driven market sentiment in recent years, however some quant traders are now betting on a return to fundamentals.

Vicinty Centres is considering replacing some of its cleaning contractors with robots in a bid to automate and save costs, according to one of the company's non-executive directors, Wai Tang.

Online female fashion retailers Shakuhachi and Popcherry have landed on the most recent consumer complaints register.

Slater and Gordon's top brass holding shares in the troubled law firm once worth more than $150 million are preparing to take a major bath as the company works to push through a deal to avoid receivership.

Billionaire Gina Rinehart has expanded her footprint in the agricultural sector, buying another cattle station in the Northern Territory.

The former chairman of the NSW Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority has alluded to a potentially dangerous prospect for Crown Resorts.

It could have once been a stretch of the imagination of Queensland Bauxite shareholders to think that they could be treated to crop updates from the Northern NSW hippie paradise of Nimbin.

Cream, cheese and butter are seldom used in commercial Chinese kitchens. Now dairy exporters like Fonterra are working to change that.

 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.