Business
The economy
Virus delivers multibillion-dollar resource export blow, but iron ore surges
Resource exports have been revised down as a result of the pandemic, but the iron ore sector is set to remain strong.
- by Shane Wright
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Opinion
Australian economy
Morrison in for a rude shock on post-pandemic economics
Getting the Australian economy back on track is going to need more than just dismantling the lockdown.
- by Ross Gittins
Energy
Energy giants forced to rethink prices in post-virus world
Australia's biggest oil and gas producers are likely to follow Britain's BP in slashing global oil price forecasts in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
- by Nick Toscano
Energy
Energy reforms give customers power to find better rates
Australian consumers will soon have greater access to their personal energy usage data with the roll-out of new competition rules.
- by Nick Toscano
Childcare
'Take action now': Call to open borders to au pairs
Families who use au pairs are scrambling for alternative childcare as about 10,000 backpackers leave Australia every month and new ones are barred from entry because of border restrictions.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Opinion
Foreign investment
Foreign investors make huge profits in Australia, we should have a fair share
And the call by big business to lower the company tax rate to attract or keep foreign investment is just a try-on.
- by Ross Gittins
Opinion
Global economy
Off a cliff: India's economy has more problems than the pandemic
Don't let anyone tell you the pandemic is the main reason India's growth has cratered.
- by Mihir Sharma
Wall Street
Federal Reserve caps US bank dividend payments after stress tests
Shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo & Co and Goldman Sachs tumbled in after-hours trading on the news, having risen earlier in the day.
- by Pete Schroeder and David Henry
Coronavirus pandemic
The US sent $2b in virus relief payments to dead people
While the tax department has asked the families of the deceased to return the money, it's not clear they have to.
- by Marcy Gordon
Coronavirus pandemic
World faces COVID debt time bomb, warns former Bank of England chief
Coronavirus-related debts could spark the next financial crisis, with countries borrowing trillions of dollars to fight the pandemic, former Bank of England governor Mervyn King has warned.
- by Liam Halligan and Russell Lynch
Editorial
Coronavirus pandemic
Qantas job cuts show danger of an economic hard landing
The federal government must wind back wage subsidies but replace them with public investment.
- The Herald's View