Business


  • Tiger bites Roo with Melbourne-Brisbane flights

    Another Qantas Cityflyer route is being munched on by Tiger, reports Ben Sandilands: this time, it’s the Melbourne to Brisbane route, with the low-fare airline offering flights up to three times daily from 28 March.

  • Insider trading: 14 more, including Octopussy, arrested on Wall St

    Wall Street’s biggest insider trading fiasco is growing, with another 14 arrested overnight in charges involving $US33 million in illegal profits. Will this be the scandal to define the noughties’ boom and bust?

  • News Corp revenue slumps 4.1%

    Rupert Murdoch loves to act positive, so his 2009/2010 first quarter profit report was upbeat, focusing on the 9% rise of the consolidated operating income. Except, it’s the cost reductions and cuts that you should pay attention to.

  • How we’re still stuck in a Berlin Wall mindset

    East and West Germany were the ultimate economic science experiments, a government controlled economy next to a free market, the free market emerging victorious. But is this black and white look at economics what got us into this GFC mess?

  • We’ve passed Wall St, next stop Hang Seng

    Australian investors need to stop believing that Wall Street is god of the Australian economy, writes Michael Pascoe. We’ve survived the GFC, even if the US didn’t, and our focus should be on Asia.