PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has put taxation reform in the spotlight just one day after the 2020 Summit.

GENERATION X employees feel unloved at work, and Generation Y are taking all the attention.

THE Federal Government will have to deliver an 'extremely tough budget' to avoid further interest rate rises, an economic forecaster says.

SWISS bank UBS is showing no signs of emerging from its crisis, activist shareholder and former CEO Luqman Arnold said on Sunday.

ALL the hype and the hoopla surrounding the float of Virgin Blue just 4? years ago provided no inkling of the grim reality that now engulfs the airline.

BASSEM Jammal, the managing director of collapsed Sydney stockbroking and stock lending firm Lift Capital, says the whole industry is a "casualty" of the Opes Prime fallout.

THE Rudd Government is being forced to consider a second round of tax cuts for inclusion in next month's budget - even before it gets to deliver the tax cuts it promised at the last election.

ANZ has slowed the selling off shares obtained from Opes Prime as it reaches the illiquid portion of shares in small-cap companies.

A MUCH larger than expected increase in producer prices in the March quarter adds to the risk of a strong overall inflation figure for the period, economists say.

GEOFF Polites, the UK-based chief executive of Jaguar and Land Rover, has died in Melbourne while visiting his hometown for the birth of his first grandchild.

WESFARMERS has turned to equity to refinance most of the bridging loan set up to support its $20 billion acquisition of Coles Group, following turbulence in global credit markets.

MORE than 800,000 Australians could receive a free cash injection from MBF if a proposed takeover of the health fund goes ahead.