Finance profits in the red

Profits are in decline across the financial services sector, while company profits are weak throughout the economy, new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows. read more

Staff targets softened at Westpac

Westpac has yielded on key controversies to reach a new enterprise agreement with staff in a deal the Finance Sector Union said "breaks the link between targets and annual salaries." read more

Slowdown retards Auswide profit

A special dividend from its captive mortgage insurance arm propped up the profit of Auswide Bank over the year to June 2015, a period in which economic stress in its core markets in North Queensland r.. read more

Limp income growth a mortgage stressor

Tepid income growth and the inevitability of a return at some point to higher (and more typical) levels of interest rates are among the darker thoughts informing the more assertive actions on Australi.. read more