The Government’s package of income tax cuts helped improve home loan affordability last month by the most in nearly two years, a report shows....

An easing in confidence in the service, retail and manufacturing sectors has seen overall business confidence in October drop 1% from September to 48%, after reaching levels not seen in a decade last month....

The recession has skittled the plans of a lot of people. A sizeable part of the population now believe they no longer have the chance of a decent retirement and have nearly given up on investing for the future....

As redundancy announcements continue to roll in, caution remains as to how much light is at the end of the recession tunnel. ...