Feature Stories

What carbon trading scheme will Australia adopt? How hard will it be on industry initially, and how much of the cost can be passed on in prices? What is the financial impact?

China’s stock market collapse was simply another negative for a US market suddenly very nervous about mortgage defaults. How is Australia faring?

Some form of carbon trading will be in place in the next few years. This now seems as inevitable as climate change itself. How should an investor respond?

An analysis by Barclays Capital shows investors can boost returns by trading relative movements in the copper price and mining equities rather than investing directly in either asset class.

Any notions that China will increase its energy efficiency, meaningfully substitute oil and coal use with renewables, and reduce climate changing pollution, are fanciful, GaveKal concluded, following a seminar this month.

Once the forgotten metal, silver has staged a revival of late. And while gold is taking the limelight as far as bullish sentiment is concerned, some experts believe it is the silver price that really could be set to explode.

Debt will send Australia into a recession just as surely as it did Japan last decade, according to Dr Steve Keen. The RBA is looking the wrong way.

Obscurity to uranium major in three years? You have to be impressed by Paladin. And it would seem the company’s star is still on the ascendancy.

Factories in Sichuan. Call centres in Bangalore. The first world is getting richer but its workers are not. How long can this last?

FN Arena takes a look at the latest means by which Australian investors can directly or indirectly invest in gold.