Michael Janda

It's a wild ride for crypto prices, with volatility for Bitcoin after it surpassed $US100,000. The local share market slid at the close, while Woolworths attempted to end strike action affecting its supply chain. The day's events and insights as they happened.

Australia's latest national accounts show why we probably would have had to be in recession to have seen an interest rate cut this year.

With so many technological advances, why does it feel like we spend more time doing paperwork than ever before? And who is profiting from all the virtual paper shuffling?

Like a good wine, the boomers are getting richer with age. But it's coming at the expense of young people, and one day they might just pull the cork out.

Wages growth in Australia slows to 3.5 per cent over the past year, according to official data, still outpacing inflation to result in modest real wage increases.

Tens, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of Australians waiting for interest rates to start falling will have to keep waiting for some time — potentially a long while.

Playing bad Santa this Christmas may not please your friends and family, but it could just save them some money if they have a mortgage. 

Woolworths held its annual general meeting, Coles released a trading update, and the Australian share market traded slightly down as hopes for a pre-Christmas interest rate cut faded. Here is how the trading day unfolded on our business blog.

Regulators keep telling us that everything is OK and Australians are coping with surging mortgage repayments. But does the reality for many households match the soothing reports?

Australia’s unemployment rate continues to edge higher, despite the creation of about 50,000, mostly full-time, jobs last month.