The good part of interest rates going up – I know, it's hard to see the good part when your loan repayments have just risen – is that in this case at least it indicates that the economy is truly in recovery mode.
It's rare to get a glimpse inside the world of a celebrity's actual business empire, which is what makes a story from British newspaper
Mail on Sunday about the financial world of Kylie Minogue so interesting.
Myer chief executive Bernie Brookes has done a brilliant job in turning around a department store chain that was almost run into the ground by Coles Myer Group.
That GFC thing? Forget about it. It was just a bad dream, an aberration. We're back on track now and the wealth bubble has reinflated very nicely.
Good news for funding starved private companies today from Wholesale Investor, which has conducted a survey of its database of more than 5000 investors to get some insight into their appetite for deals.
Tony Abbott says he's had a change of heart on paid maternity leave and now believes it is a good idea.
As usual, International Women's Day has seen the release of a flurry of surveys on everything from career prospects to money management.
There is a great profile on US entrepreneur website
Inc.com of a guy called Josh James, who is the founder of web analytics and online marketing company Omniture.
The founder of Cotton On, Nigel Austin, is notoriously media shy, so it was a bit of a shock to see his name plastered all over the back page of Melbourne's Herald-Sun newspaper this morning.
Things might be pretty rotten in the United States now, but at least they are still working hard to come up with innovative ways to get themselves out of the mire.