Hello! Here’s what you need to know on Friday. 1. The US federal appeals court ruled against Donald Trump, and is refusing to reinstate travel ban affecting people from seven Muslim-majority countries. The President responded in the way he knows best. More » ...

Australian shares closed the session, and the week, higher. Today’s scoreboard. S&P ASX 200. 5,720.60 +55.98 +0.99% All Ordinaries. 5,771.60 +53.86 +0.94% More »     

Chinese trade data easily breezed past expectations in December, helping to fuel optimism over the state of the global economy. But, while there's clear evidence that global economic activity is improving, the strength was helped by a low base effect stemming from low...

If you live in eastern Australia, then you know it's hot. The entire east coast of is currently in the grip of a heatwave classified by one climate researcher as 'horrifying'. More »     

Move over iron ore and coking coal, that's not a price spike, THIS is a price spike. In the next hour, the spot price of electricity is about to jump 50-fold to nearly $14,000/MWh, the market cap price, according to the national regulator, the Australian Energy Market...

US President Donald Trump seems to have patched things up with China by promising to honour the "One China" agreement between the world's two biggest economies on his first phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a source told the Financial Times. More » ...

The INSIDER Summary. • Amal Clooney is having twins with her husband, George Clooney. • Beyoncé announced she was having twins with Jay Z earlier this week, making it the second big recent twins announcement. More »     

Blackouts could hit New South Wales as early as 3.30pm today has electricity demand soars as temperatures rise across Australia's east coast The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has revised its forecasts for this afternoon, saying it may need to switch off the...

The Republican National Committee defended President Donald Trump's travel ban on Thursday night, after an appeals court ruled unanimously against a government bid to reinstate Trump's now-suspended executive order banning refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries...

After months of strong growth, the value of lending to Australian housing investors fell in December, albeit not by much. According to housing finance figures released by the ABS on Friday, the value of lending to investors fell by 1% to $13.199 billion, the first mon...

Baker Hughes will release its weekly tally of US oil and gas rigs at 1 p.m. ET. The oil rig count jumped again last week, by 17 to 583 and to the highest level since October 23, 2015. The count was up 84% from the low reached in May 2016. More »     

The brewing conflict between aspirants to the Sinaloa cartel throne apparently reached a new stage earlier this month, when gunmen aligned with one cartel leader attacked the sons and a longtime associate of jailed kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. More »     

Aberdeen Asset Management is channeling its inner Brothers Grimm.  The UK-based investment firm, which has $374 billion in assets, on February 9 released six videos that illustrate the commonplace mistakes made by fixed-income investors.  More »     

Welcome to Finance Insider, Business Insider's summary of the top stories of the past 24 hours. Bridgewater Associates is as well known for being the world's largest hedge fund, with $150 billion in assets under management, as it is for its quirky culture of "radical ...

Madison Square Garden Company has fired top security chief Frank Benedetto after the physical altercation that led to Charles Oakley's ejection from a Knicks game and arrest, according to DNA Info New York. More »     

Reckitt Benckiser, the British maker of Durex, is buying the baby formula maker Mead Johnson Nutrition for about $17 billion -- and a handful of banks stand to earn tens of millions of dollars in fees. More »     

OO.ready(function() { window.player = OO.Player.create("ooyala-player","ljeWxhOTE6pU3d4ISFIFpRv57dfECxKu", { autoplay. false }); }); Will Burrard-Lucas struggled to get the perfect wildlife shot for years. So, he created the BeetleCam, a four-wheeled buggy to get clos...

If you end up marrying the person you are now on a first date with, you will at some point have to talk about money. You know, paying the electric bill and saving up to send the kids to college, and all that romantic stuff. More »     

Lawmakers got an earful from constituents in Tennessee on Thursday night during a town hall to talk about the future of the Affordable Care Act, the law better known as Obamacare. More »     

Shia LaBeouf's Donald Trump protest has been shut down. TMZ reports that the protest's host, the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City, has shut off the camera that live-streamed LaBeouf's protest, called "He Will Not Divide Us," due to concerns that the prot...