Business

TOM RICHARDSON: Bank shares have surged in February as they impress investors with cost control and benefit from the flow through of three interest rate cuts in 2025.

Its ‘down down’ campaign enabled Coles to make higher profits as more product sold, depending on deals with suppliers, a senior executive says.

Kevin Gallagher’s pay packet for the 2025 year was inflated by a multimillion-dollar payment of performance rights as the oil and gas producer also announced sweeping job cuts

The Kremlin is making big promises to Donald Trump’s administration.

NAB has flagged cost out programs and more lending helped its profit jump in the December quarter.

Workers have seen their pay levels go backwards compared with inflation for the first time since late 2023, unless they’re a public servant. Labor’s election promise to get wages moving again is looking hollow.

The revised bid is a “best and final” $32.25 a share offer that values Australia’s biggest steel maker at $15 billion.

December wage data is set to remain stable, even though large sections of the workforce pocketed a rise in their weekly pay.

Federal Health Minister Mark Butler says premiums will increase by an average 4.41 per cent from April, up from the previous year’s 3.73 per cent rise.

Baby Bunting's nine revamped ‘stores of the future’ are delivering the goods, helping the baby goods retailer grow overall same-store sales by 4.7 per cent.

Supermarket giant Coles has fired back over price jumps on household essentials marketed with a Down Down promotion, arguing they represented ‘genuine’ cost increases.

Michelle Kruger is stepping back from leadership of the flagship shipbuilding business ahead of retiring on June 1, leaving it to be run by its chief operating officer.

A Federal Court judge has dismissed claims that Adelaide energy company Santos had green-washed its net zero target and the impact of gas.

The belief that higher taxes reliably deliver lower prices, or stronger economic performance is deeply flawed. No country has ever taxed its way to prosperity.