A six-part series featuring practical tips and advice to help you kick off the year with financial clarity.

You don’t need a marathon spreadsheet session - taking a few minutes before your summer break gives you a fresh financial start for the year ahead.

Virgin Australia, Ticketek, Ticketmaster and Sony are among this year’s winners of the infamous award from consumer advocate CHOICE.

The Australian sharemarket finished its session higher after the Reserve Bank - as expected - raised interest rates to an 18-year record but signalled a wait-and-see approach to further tightening.

The staggering sum came after a series of court rulings went from bad to worse for Gurvinderpal Singh, who had wanted a home built.

ClearVue has set up a Hong Kong base and showroom to pursue 15 regional project opportunities, leveraging its recent solar window installation at a Macau hotel.

The RBA has increased interest rates to 4.85 per cent. Use our calculator to see how much extra your mortgage repayments will be.

The union representing thousands of David Jones workers is planning for the worst as the troubled department store chain prepares to close up to half its stores.

The US president tried and failed to bully Canada in tense negotiations this year. Now he may pay a heavy price.

Some media observers attribute the decline to US President Donald Trump’s slipping approval ratings, but Fox chief Lachlan Murdoch says there is a simpler explanation.

NSW is “particularly sensitive” to interest rate increases, according to NSW Treasury modelling.

With the president’s grip on Washington set to be much weaker after the midterms, US bosses are desperately trying to de-MAGAfy their companies.

The sharemarket has fallen following a tech sell-off in the US and ahead of an expected interest rate hike.

Gateway Mining has four rigs drilling, with a fifth due, at its Yandal gold project, as drilling gets back on track to test its high-grade Cowza discovery and other key targets in WA.

The company’s boss, Changpeng Zhao, served time in jail over anti-money laundering failures. To get his users’ money back, he must hope the rest of the industry has learned a lesson.

Accelerate Resources has secured $50,000 in CSIRO funding to study manganese core from its Woodie Woodie North project, aiming to fast-track a Pilbara processing pathway.

Aguia Resources has posted a more than threefold increase in quarterly revenue to $639,000, signalling a turnaround as its South American gold and phosphate projects begin to deliver cash flow.

The nation’s second-biggest lender expects interest rates to remain “elevated” and for property prices to continue tumbling.

The owner of surfwear staple Rip Curl and outdoor adventure brand Kathmandu is in talks about a possible deal, it revealed on Monday.

Soil sampling at King River Resources’ Mindoolah gold project in WA’s Murchison has returned a high-grade 231.8ppb gold result, with drilling now underway on the new targets.

The latest round of job cuts will take place within weeks with payouts worth far less than the millions paid to former executives who resigned following a scandal.

For years, Wall Street has been happy to write blank cheques for some of the biggest companies in the world. But investors are now starting to get nervous.

The AI craze is not only threatening to wipe out jobs and inflate a sharemarket bubble. It’s also costing governments more when they borrow.

Complaints have surged in the multitrillion dollar super sector, but the watchdog says fund trustees are too readily blaming issues on members.

The RBA and Australian governments are pulling in opposite directions. No wonder inflation pressures persist.

Qatar Airways, which has committed to Western Sydney International, has reduced the number of passengers it flies daily around the world by about 25,000 since the US-Israel-Iran War erupted.

From New York to Abu Dhabi and Kyiv, security researchers and Binance executives rushed to trace the stolen money after a hack that has shocked the crypto world.

As the NSW government ramps up fines for underquoting and brings in new pricing transparency rules for agents, we spend a day with those enforcing the rules.

On the brink of financial collapse, the 188-year-old institution has a legacy worth saving – but no one seems to believe it can ever return to its former glory.

There is no shortage of reasons to worry about the global economy. And yet there is at least one piece of good news on the horizon.