For the week, the S&P 500 gained 3.36 per cent, the Nasdaq rose 4.44 per cent, and the Dow climbed 2.96 per cent.
Sabrina Valle and Twesha Dikshit
New ‘payday super’ laws take effect on July 1. But there’s a few traps for workers who pay to retire on June 30 but also want to max out their nest egg contributions.
Nick Bruining
Q+A: Some regard ‘investing’ as sticking money into an asset that generates a regular income return. The only way you can make money on crypto is to find someone who is prepared to pay more than you paid.
Your super balance is growing. So why does retirement feel further away? When the blueprint keeps changing, even disciplined, long-term savers can start to feel like they’re building on shifting ground.
Felipe Araujo
As squeezed households and young shoppers turn to BNPL providers as a cash flow management tool, many do so unaware of how each new account and purchase is affecting their credit score.
Daniel Newell
A US miner is angling for expedited approvals to build WA’s next rare earths refinery, in a test of the robustness of Uncle Sam and the Lucky Country’s newfound mineral allegiances.
Simone Grogan
Screenwriters and Hollywood studios have reached a tentative deal after a few weeks of negotiations.
Staff Writers
Despite soaring fuel prices, WA’s love affair with cars is only accelerating.
Joe Spagnolo and Kirsty Lichtenstein
If you drive a diesel car, you might want to fill up today.
Kirsty Lichtenstein
Dry fuel pumps at WA service stations are an unwelcome reality for drivers heading home after the Easter long weekend.
Amy Cavender
Rapid house price growth has helped WA’s economic performance in the last three months of 2025, but it was dulled by falls in household consumption as Perth suffers the country’s second-worst inflation.
Cheyanne Enciso
The Treasurer says he would be “pretty happy” if the headline out of the May budget was “tax reform”.
Nathan Schmidt
WA motorists are getting a lousy deal on fuel prices compared with other Australians because of ‘anti-competitive’ regulations here, a national retailer claims.
John Flint
Savvy punters who have been cashing in on credit card rewards schemes might have to find a new life hack after the central bank changed the payments game.
Alex Mitchell
Card surcharges are banned from 2026 - but small businesses are warning the move will backfire spectacularly as Aussies are forced to pay more for everything.
Cameron Micallef
Italian police have arrested one of Italy's most wanted fugitives at a villa on the Amalfi Coast.
WA Landlords will no longer be able to kick renters out without a valid reason, under new laws being proposed by the Cook Government.
Joe Spagnolo
Gen Y hasn’t had it all easy. They did experience the 2008 global financial crisis and more recently the Covid pandemic, but not a protracted deep recession
A recession in Australia over the next three to six months is a ‘meaningful risk,’ but is not yet the most likely scenario, according to a top WA economist.
The Trump administration is appealing a judge's order to halt construction of a $A579 million ballroom at the White House.
STEPHEN GROVES
Investors desperately want to believe the Middle East war is near its end and the Strait of Hormuz will soon open, restoring energy flows and reducing the threat of a global inflation tsunami.
Sean Smith
WA service stations will be hit with a $4000 fine if they don’t declare their fuel price to Fuelwatch – and will also be forced to reveal when they run out of fuel, under proposed changes.
WA’s leading business lobby group has slammed the ‘absurdity’ of WA’s outdated retail trading laws after a new survey once again showed West Australians overwhelming want more shopping hours.
Dozens of WA residents, including pensioners and former tradies, have been forced to live in cars and tents at a Safety Bay roadside camp as exorbitant rents push them out of the housing market.
Charlton Hart
