Q&A: Financial crisis
business reporter Michael Janda
ABC News Online business reporter Michael Janda makes sense of the global downturn.
Retail reality
Finance reporter Alicia Barry
The ABS says recent gloomy retail sales data would not have been so bad if it took it into account a wider range of goods and services.
Financial tax fears
NAB's Tom Vosa says European financial stocks were sold-off on the prospect of a new transactions tax.
'Danger zone'
business editor Peter Ryan
World Bank president Robert Zoellick has warned that the deepening economic woes in the US and Europe are pushing the world into a new "danger zone".
20 years of volatility
Business editor Peter Ryan
The Future Fund chairman David Murray has warned that volatility on global financial markets could run for up to 20 years.
Charts
Examine charts of key business indicators, including interest rates and GDP growth.
Australian investors have seen shares tumble back to lows not seen since the unprecedented one-day turnaround on August 9.
Asia an 'enormous opportunity'ANZ has reported $4.2 billion in underlying profits in the nine months to June 30, up 16.1 per cent on the same period last year.
'Grinding to a halt'Weak business sales figures are another factor likely to keep the Reserve Bank from moving rates higher in the short-term.
Looming job lossesThe number of job losses is rising as the rising dollar and falling sales hurt businesses large and, particularly, small. (audio)
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Demonstrators from the communist-affiliated trade union PAME shout slogans during a protest against the new austerity measures in Athens February 9, 2012. Greek political leaders clinched a long-stalled deal on reforms and austerity measures to secure a second international bailout and avoid a chaotic default, hours before the country's financial backers began meeting in Brussels.
If rising unemployment and falling GDP levels are hitting Australia and other developed economies hard, how much worse is the predicament facing developing countries, including those in the Pacific?
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