Brent oil shot to its highest price since May after increased fighting in the Middle East on Thursday threatened to slow the global flow of crude. At ...

President Donald Trump says the United States will open a formal investigation into the European Union’s trade practices, ...

Stocks are edging higher on Wall Street and oil prices are falling for the first time in a week, even as heavy fighting in ...

Alan Kohler has been a financial journalist for 46 years. He began as a cadet on The Australian covering the Poseidon boom and bust; has been a columnist for Chanticleer in the Australian Financial ...

A 16-year-old boy is charged with murdering his mother and attempting to kill his sister in Perth's south-east, as police say the girl is being treated in hospital for "very serious" stab wounds.