Business
Market movers
Opinion
World markets
Gold fever: Why China and the rest of the world are stocking up
The gold price is behaving very strangely, but there is a simple explanation.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Updated
World markets
Industrials and healthcare firms lift ASX after Wall Street treads water
- by Millie Muroi
Updated
Earnings season
ANZ boss warns of widening financial stress as profits slide 7 per cent
- by Millie Muroi
Currency
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Companies
Origin Energy-backed Octopus gains more investors to power global push
Australian power giant Origin’s stake in Britain’s Octopus Energy has gained hundreds of millions of dollars in value after the fast-growing UK company secured new backing.
- by Nick Toscano
Opinion
Social media
TikTok makes a stand against forced sale or ban in the US
TikTok has filed a court challenge against a recently-enacted US law that would force its Chinese parent to divest its US business or close it down.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Markets
Updated
World markets
Industrials and healthcare firms lift ASX after Wall Street treads water
- by Millie Muroi
Opinion
World markets
Gold fever: Why China and the rest of the world are stocking up
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
The economy
Opinion & Perspectives
TikTok makes a stand against forced sale or ban in the US
TikTok has filed a court challenge against a recently-enacted US law that would force its Chinese parent to divest its US business or close it down.
Stephen Bartholomeusz
Senior business columnist
Sorry, not sorry: Qantas perfects the art of the non-apology
To suggest that the airline’s settlement over the ghost flights matter makes Qantas a trustworthy company is to be wilfully blind to its recent history.
Joe Aston
Columnist
When politicians fire up on ‘security’, my bulldust detector goes to DEFCON 1
Using “security” as a justification for a policy initiative opens the door to interventions that are, in the words of former Treasury secretary Dr Ken Henry, “frankly, bad”.
Ross Gittins
Economics Editor
Banking & finance
Updated
Earnings season
ANZ boss warns of widening financial stress as profits slide 7 per cent
- by Millie Muroi
Opinion
Home loans
Mortgage wars enter next phase as property remains a rich playground
- by Elizabeth Knight
Entrepreneurship
A force of nature with a wry smile: Lang Walker remembered
Billionaire and philanthropist Lang Walker was remembered as a transformative force in Australia’s urban landscape at a memorial service at Sydney Town Hall on Friday.
- by Colin Kruger and Carolyn Cummins
The iron men with a $3 billion plan to save the planet
Two former Fortescue executives want to reduce the enormous carbon footprint of iron ore, Australia’s most lucrative export industry. It’ll cost at least $3 billion.
- by Anne Hyland
