The ways people use the internet to make an income from home have well and truly been on the increase in recent times. This trend has even gone as far as allowing people the opportunity to make a career out of their home business. One popular and lu...

The investor can make a steady profit from the stock market and the various opportunities for investment that it provides .One such method for earning with the stock market is option trading. the stock market is a large market with many huge securit...

The Indian government recently won a hard fought vote of confidence as part of its effort to secure a controversial nuclear power pact hashed out with America. Now we will wait to see if some of this confidence in the political arena can help boost...

Are you searching for ways to earn extra money? Possibly you have thought about stock market investments. Trading in the stock market is one of the most popular ways to invest your money for your later use, especially when you retire. You can do thi...

Oil, corn, gold, copper and silver tumbled, sending commodity markets to a four-month low, as the US dollar jumped in theories that slower economic growth would erode demand for raw materials. Seeing that the US economy has been sluggish now for nin...

The futures market says our shares will be up 1.4% or more than 70 points this morning, but I'd also keep a close eye on commodity stocks like Rio Tinto, Oz Minerals, BHP Billiton, Woodside, Santos and Newcrest because another poor night for commodi...

Despite the questions over the latest employment figures, we can say jobs growth is slowing, slowly. Nearly 11,000 new jobs were created in July as there was rise in full-time employment, instead of a fall, as some analysts had suspected might happe...

Two results yesterday, one in Australia and one in Indonesia, should give those resource bulls some food for thought, especially for nickel mining stocks. Times are tough: the market's slide in resources is firmly in bear territory, courtesy of the...

Its now a year since the US sub-prime mortgage crisis really hit with a vengeance. Shares have recently made new lows indicating the ride remains harrowing for investors. The AMP's chief strategist and economist, Dr Shane Oliver looks at how the cur...

Yesterday poor housing finance figures added to the downward pressure on official interest rates, so what happens with today's jobs figures for July? The market consensus is mixed on the employment figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, w...

Significant changes seem to be happening in Australia's two key export markets, China and Japan. The two countries are major buyers of our resources, especially coal, iron ore, oil and gas, plus some farm products. Both are also major sources of imp...

Every month Merrill Lynch polls big investors around the world to see what they were thinking and posts the results on its US website. Here's the results of the June survey: Investors are offering the clearest signal yet that the global economic slo...