The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is set to boost the competition faced by the much-criticised ASX in an effort to clear roadblocks for investors and attract more foreign capital to Australia.

As the Daily Telegraph warns us that Treasurer Jim Chalmers is thinking about breaking pre-election promises about negative gearing, I’ve been wondering how a Productivity Roundtable became an Economic Reform Roundtable? And now it’s sounding like a Tax Reform Table!

The Australian Council of Trade Unions is pushing to limit negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts to just one investment property. If it's brought in, how would it hit you?

You probably know TPG Telecom - one of the nation's largest telcos - but did you know there's an investment company called TPG too? If you didn't, you could work at the ASX!

  Yesterday, we looked at the jobs most at risk of being displaced by AI. The roles where Microsoft’s latest research found the strongest overlap between human tasks and what AI can already do. That list was stacked with white-collar professionals: writers, translators, sales reps, and customer service workers, all exposed to real-world AI performance […]

Which jobs are at risk of being eliminated by AI? Microsoft is here to answer the question in a new study. Here's who's on the list.

Aussie design software unicorn Canva is probably the most anticipated local float for 2025–26. But would it perform? A recent US IPO of a competitor shows it could soar (and then some).

On Friday, the US jobs report came in surprisingly weak, sparking immediate fears of a recession. Wall Street didn’t like it — the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 all dropped. But by Monday, things had changed. The Dow jumped more than 500 points overnight, and our SPI futures suggest the Australian market will open strongly.

Is the stock market bubble about to burst? In this week’s Switzer Investing TV, Peter Switzer is joined by Fairmont Equities’ Mike Gable and Switzer Report’s Paul Rickard to break down the data — and the danger.

A $4.60+ share price has collapsed to around $1.70, slashing more than $600 million from its market value in mere days. But as longtime uranium hopers count their mounting losses, another group is cashing in.

Bold economic ideas are flowing ahead of next month’s roundtable convened by the Albanese government, aimed at boosting Australia’s productivity and economy, and repairing the budget. Among the biggest ideas to emerge is: should Australia resurrect its carbon price?

Productivity growth is a key driver of improvements in living standards. But in Australia over the last decade, output per hour worked grew by less than a quarter of its 60-year average. We urgently need to turn this around.