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The departments of Treasury and Finance expect the federal budget deficit to be $30.1 billion in 2013/14, unchanged from the government's own forecast.

Business conditions remain at four-year lows, while low interest rates and the falling Australian dollar have failed to boost business confidence.

Australian businesses are taking longer to pay each other in 2013 compared to a year earlier, in an indication that their level of financial health has not improved, according to credit bureau Dun

Australia is the most expensive country for overseas students with a combined average cost of university fees and living costs totalling more than US$38,000 per year, according to recent research b

The Australian share market has opened fractionally higher, boosted by the big miners.

Property developer Stockland has seen its net profit fall almost 80 per cent due in part to weakness in the housing market and a major writedown.

One of the great advantages of being in a federation is that states can learn from each other, cherry picking good ideas and avoiding disasters.

Labor says Tony Abbott will have no more excuses to hold back on his policy costings once the final pre-election budget numbers are released.

The Australian dollar is being weighed down by strength in the greenback amid renewed expectations that the US Federal Reserve will begin tapering its economic stimulus program soon.

Wall Street stocks have closed mixed as investors look to a busy week of data releases on the US economy.

Expect costs to rise as falling revenue streams put pressure on the Barnett government's ability to balance the budget bottom line.

The Australian dollar is higher due to reports Chinese state-owned banks are offering stimulus measures to major cities.

Base Metals miner Kagara has cancelled the sale of half its remaining Queensland assets after negotiations with the purchaser, which failed to come up with $6 million in deposits for the projects i

The Australian share market rose by more than one per cent as renewed optimism about China's economy prompted investors to pile into resources stocks.

Range Resources has finalised the sale of its producing oil and gas assets in Texas for $US30 million.

Efforts to boost residential and commercial development in Port Hedland have hit a hurdle, with the state environmental regulator rejecting a proposal to re-zone industrial land over concerns regar

Building products maker James Hardie expects profit to be steady as housing conditions in the US and Australia improve.

UGL will split its shrinking engineering business from its growing property arm to reflect the property division's greater global focus.

Stronger sales and improved margins have lifted retailer JB HiFi's net profit by more than 11 per cent.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced $35.6 million in funding to work with business to retrain Australia's manufacturing workforce for the future.

Mines Minister Bill Marmion says Toro Energy's acquisition of a uranium project in close proximity to its proposed yellowcake mine at Wiluna is a significant step forward for the sector.

The Australian share market is flat, but the mining giants are bucking the trend to open in firmer territory.

Australia's largest gold miner, Newcrest Mining, has reported an annual net loss of $5.78 billion for the 12 months to June 30.

The state government has gone back on its decision to slash by half the amount paid to households that feed solar power into Western Australia's energy grid.

The Australian dollar is higher as the currency continues to extend gains following the release of strong Chinese data.

US stocks have retreated from record peaks and finished lower after a sluggish week light on news and trading volume.

The so-called PNG solution is a band-aid measure designed to sweep the issue of boat people under the carpet.

The Australian dollar is higher despite the Reserve Bank of Australia's weaker outlook for economic growth.

A Perth-based businessman has pleaded guilty to insider trading relating to the takeover of MacArthur Coal by US-based Peabody Energy Corporation in 2011.

The federal government has invoked the ‘law of unexpected consequences' with its new bank levy.

Trisha Burgess's small business has achieved a major sales boost this past year without any changes to her product range. All the gains, she says, are due to a banking app.