A sharp rally in gold and oil stocks has protected the local sharemarket, even as experts warn domestic petrol prices could jump by more than 50 per cent in the aftermath of shock US strikes on Iran ...

The proposed takeover of Warner Bros by Paramount Skydance could significantly reshape Hollywood and the wider media ...

The ‘carry trade’ has returned to Australia helping the $A to defying expectations with super funds now making money on their currency hedging.

By Dr Shane Oliver, Chief Economist and Head of Investment Strategy at AMP. Investment markets and key developments Global share markets mostly rose over the last week as worries about AI and tech ...

Nine key charts worth watching are: business conditions PMIs; US tariffs; inflation; inflation expectations; profit growth; share market valuations; the rotation trade from tech to non-tech shares; ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...

Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran on Tuesday called for the central bank to make aggressive interest rate cuts this year. "I'm probably looking for a little bit more than a point of interest rate ...

The Reserve Bank's governor acknowledged borrowers would likely be disappointed but warned of a "harder" alternative.

The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates three times since last summer, bringing the federal funds range down to 3.50% - 3.75%. While that might sound like something only economists care about, ...

The ASX 200 has fallen slightly after disappointing news about Australia's inflation rate, while the dollar retreated fractionally below 70 cents to the greenback after hitting three-year highs ...

Today was the 5th day in a row where mortgage rates moved at least a little bit lower. While rate movement is often the product of obvious underlying motivations in the economy or news headlines, ...

Sabrina Karl has over two decades of experience writing about savings, CDs, and other banking topics. She is currently a full-time staff writer at Investopedia and one of the country's top experts on ...