Australian Market Report. The Australian share market is tipped to open lower after major US and European bourses fell on fresh concerns about Greece's fiscal position. More...
A second player on Queensland's coal-seam gas frontier is set to fall into foreign hands after Arrow Energy accepted an improved takeover bid. More...
Stern Hu has spent most of the past nine months sitting upright or sleeping on a communal board in the Shanghai Detention Centre. More...
An expert on Chinese law has asked why Australia is ''giving up so quickly'' on transparency questions surrounding the trial, starting today, of Rio Tinto's chief iron ore salesman in China, Stern Hu. More...
Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese will today tell senior Chinese leaders the mining giant is prepared to boost investment in the country, as he steps up efforts in Beijing to repair its tattered relations with its biggest customer. More...
The All Star Nomura China fund, which is managed by Nomura Asset Management Singapore, has been launched at a discount management fee. More...
Australia is attracting more than $142bn worth of investment in some of the world's richest natural gas fields to supply buyers in Japan and China. More...
Kevin Rudd is believed to have told Stephen Conroy to come up with a strategy within two weeks to take the heat out of the political crisis building up around the national broadband project. More...
Australians are enjoying record economic prosperity, a report says. More...
New economic gauge of what matters most to ordinary Australians shows rise in wealth. More...
The nation's escape from recession, its close ties with China and the rapidly rising dollar are fuelling interest among global investors. More...
Investors are losing confidence in the strength of Australia's economic and sharemarket recovery . More...
Thousands of new houses will be delayed from coming onto the market, and will cost up to $3000 more, because of a sudden decision by Telstra to stop installing copper phone lines, large developers warn. More...
The manganese miner and trader OM Holdings has won the dubious distinction of having the longest lag time between closing off its accounts and sharing its profits with investors - a massive 148 days, or five months. More...
Macquarie's securitisation arm privately arranges a bond containing $500 million worth of 'low doc' loans, the first such issuance since the financial crisis. More...
New bank debt will remain expensive for at least another two years, which will increase the cost of new mortgages and business loans, the Commonwealth Bank's most senior funding executive has warned. More...
Virgin Money is lining up as a key contender against National Australia Bank in the race to buy British branches of the Royal Bank of Scotland More...
A central figure in a global hunt for $123 million in missing cash has been compulsorily examined twice by the Hong Kong securities regulator at the request of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. More...
New official figures show government spending running about $5 billion below forecasts, raising the prospect it has been unable to spend stimulus money as fast as it had planned. More...
Liberty Media says it would be interested in acquiring a stake in Foxtel. More...
The head of Victoria's $35 billion public sector investment fund wants to expand into managing infrastructure assets for super funds. More...
Australian iconic surfwear brand Quiksilver has warned consumer demand for its apparel remains weak across the globe, especially in its biggest US coastal markets of California, Florida and Hawaii. More...
Some of the nation's biggest financial institutions have paid more than $100,000 to train their analysts to detect lying chief executives. More...
Ratings agency Moody's has warned that Australian airports face greater uncertainty. More...
Air New Zealand is moving to greater flexibility in mixing premium and low-cost seats. More...
ResourceHouse says its $8.7bn thermal coal mine project in central Queensland will proceed after the company sealed Chinese financing. More...
A high-level Saudi Arabian delegation will tour Western Australia this week looking to boost wheat imports as the country phases out irrigated crop production. More...
Melbourne's property market is shaping up to record its strongest pre-Easter results due to insatiable demand. More...
The pay may be good but the hours are long, the industry's image is tarnished and restless financial markets add a layer of uncertainty to the job. Who'd want to be an investment banker at the moment? Hundreds, it would seem. More...
Foster's pulls an advertising campaign that it admitted was too risque for TV just days after it was released online. More...
Buderim Ginger hopes to take a bite out of the burgeoning natural medicines market with its first range of tablets. More...
Better Place Australia will introduce the world's third large-scale charge network to service electric cars across Australia from 2011. More...
John Gillespie. What do the Stern Hu and Jetstar Pacific cases have in common? Both are not only important cautionary tales for Australian investors in socialist Asia, they also point to fundamental differences in the way law functions in this region. More...
Adele Ferguson. The National Australia Bank boss Cameron Clyne has some big decisions to make in the next five weeks on how he treats the competition watchdog's views on the bank's bid for Axa. More...
David Symons. After almost four weeks suspended from trade, Sigma Pharmaceuticals is set to end the guessing game tomorrow when it reveals asset write-downs forced upon it by the auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers, and any collateral damage to banking arrangements. More...
Andrew Main. There we all were, waiting for the next big corporate deal to drop, needling investment bankers for clues, and along comes Greenhill & Co out of the US to buy control of boutique investment bank Caliburn Partnership for almost $200 million. More...
Ross Gittins. Our economy was travelling at close to full capacity when the global recession struck, and we were just getting used to living under the unaccustomed strictures that go with it. Now it's looking like we'll be back to full capacity in no time and needing to don the straitjacket again. More...
Barry Fitzgerald. The Chinese are crazy for ceramic tiles. Recent estimates suggest they are laying an amazing 2.8 billion square metres of tiles a year. And as the ''floor space'' in the country rises exponentially, in line with the massive urbanisation under way, the figure is only going to get bigger. More...
Mark Hawthorne. National Australia Bank has raided rival Westpac's Business Acquisition Group (BAG), the team that handles small and medium-sized businesses with between $10 million and $100 million of finance. More...
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China is likely to see a trade deficit in March, the country's commerce minister said in Beijing Sunday. More...
A strike by British Airways cabin crew entered its second day Sunday with the airline insisting it was operating a good service against union claims of heavy disruption More...
China warned the U.S. against imposing sanctions over the value of the yuan, arguing that the exchange rate issue has been politicized and that a rise in protectionism threatens the global economic recovery. More...
The local unit of General Motors Co. in South Korea will recall some sport utility vehicles and sedans because of problems with the steering wheel and fuel hoses, local media said Sunday. More...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said government bailouts of big financial companies are "unconscionable" and must be ended as part of a regulatory overhaul following the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. More...
Google Inc.'s looming withdrawal from China adds to pressure to expand in South Korea and Japan, where the Web-search company has won a fraction of the popularity it enjoys in the U.S. and Europe. More...
Orders for long-lasting goods in the U.S. probably climbed in February for a third month, and home sales were little changed, adding to evidence manufacturing is heading the recovery, economists said before reports this week. More...
Bharti Airtel Ltd., India's biggest mobile-phone company, said it obtained $US8.3 billion in funding for its proposed acquisition of Zain's African assets, a day after its board gave approval for a formal offer this week. More...
SABMiller Plc and its Chinese partner, which make the country's best-selling beer, will pursue acquisitions and increase production capacity to boost growth in the world's most populous nation. More...
The political whirlwind surrounding the U.S. health reform votes in the House on Sunday is powered by many issues. Cost is chief among them. More...
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. gave Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein $US9.8 million in total compensation for 2009, the firm said in a regulatory filing. More...
Oil India Ltd. and Indian Oil Corp. jointly made the bid for Gulfsands Petroleum Plc that the U.K. company with assets in Syria and the Gulf of Mexico rejected last week, three people familiar with the matter said. More...
Lloyds Banking Group shares rose sharply after it forecast that it would make a profit this year, despite making heavy losses on bad loans in 2009. More...
Handheld computer maker Palm has said its income for the year will be far below expectations because of lukewarm sales of its smartphones. More...
Sahara Group and Rendezvous Sports World Ltd. won the rights to own the ninth and 10th teams in the Indian Premier League, the world's richest cricket franchise, for a combined $US703 million. More...