Australian Market Report. The Australian sharemarket fell for a second consecutive day in quiet trading yesterday. More...
Get ready for the deluge - not winter rains, but the annual results from listed companies. The deluge will begin in earnest next week. More...
The war for deposits has prompted Australians to save more than ever, driving the money on call at banks to record levels. More...
Macquarie has sounded an effective profit downgrade by warning that its three largest businesses are unlikely to reach forecasts. More...
Investors in GrainCorp and AWB have been promised substantial synergies will flow from a planned $2 billion merger. More...
The corporate regulator has filed civil proceedings against a former Macquarie fund manager who admitted making millions through insider trading. More...
ASIC says it will slash the time taken to commence insider trading investigations by up to 30 per cent. More...
They are among the country's most successful, wealthiest and admired businessmen: well past retirement age, worth millions and still working. More...
Of all the countries to mount a management takeover of our largest financial institution, New Zealand would be one of the least likely. More...
A last-minute write-down of $170 million against Telstra's problematic Hong Kong mobile phone business appears to have erased group's profit growth. More...
The Australian sharemarket is forecast to rally in the final months of the year. More...
The Australian dollar nudged higher yesterday. More...
The London-based marketing services company which this week made a $363 million offer to buy out media buyer Harold Mitchell said plans over who would succeed the media mogul were a matter of ''high priority''. More...
Self-managed super funds have won major concessions on a key recommendation of the Cooper review covering personal assets. More...
Rio Tinto-owned Energy Resources of Australia has reported an 82 per cent fall in its first-half profit. More...
Two weeks ago, the core posse of Rio Tinto's million-dollar men strode into Australia's striking rust-red pavilion at Shanghai's Expo site. More...
The annual Diggers & Dealers mining conference in Kalgoorlie is famous for many things. More...
Australian house prices have fallen for the first time in 17 months, as rising interest rates and the end of government stimulus payments crimp demand. More...
Australia's wine industry resolved in 2007 to improve profitability by moving away from plonk to high-end wines sold at a premium price. More...
The development and construction industry was another sector of the economy that was relieved to see better inflation figures during the week. More...
China accounted for 5 per cent of new foreign investment in Australia in 2009, despite attracting the lion's share of the media focus on foreign investment proposals. More...
Tensions between Sandfire Resources and OZ Minerals have escalated after Sandfire turned down a request by OZ for a board seat at the copper/gold group. More...
Origin has bulked up its reserves of gas, which the company hopes to export through a massive liquefied natural gas plant in southern Queensland. More...
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson says he can't understand why Australia struggles to sell itself as an attractive tourist destination. After all, he can't think of another country he'd rather visit. More...
Retiring Shell Australia chief Russell Caplan says that the oil major is ready to invest in Australia with or without a resources tax and that the Gorgon fields will underpin the local gas sector for decades to come. More...
Westpac says signs of compromise among prudential regulators on proposed new global liquidity rules are a positive for Australian banks. More...
Earnings from MAp's Brussels Airport investment were whacked by Iceland's volcanic eruption in the first half. More...
Centro Properties Group's refinancing of its $2.7 billion debt, some of which relates to its US operations, indicates the troubled shopping centre owner and landlord is getting back on track. More...
Australand Holdings' interim result was given a positive review by property analysts and set the tone for what is forecast to be a more upbeat reporting season than last year More...
Ross Gittins. Strange things happen in election campaigns. When we learnt this week that consumer prices rose only modestly in the June quarter, the media greeted this as great news for Julia Gillard and even for the Reserve Bank governor, Glenn Stevens. More...
Malcolm Maiden. You could call the GrainCorp-AWB merger one for the patriots More...
Danny John. The three powerhouses of Macquarie Group's annual profits including its expanded global securities business have been hit by a worldwide drop in confidence. More...
Ian Verrender. There was much relief this week when that stalwart of state politics, the elasticised grand dame of the minor courts, Laura Norda, finally made her long-awaited debut as a candidate in the upcoming federal poll. More...
John Durie. Telstra has been forced into another profit downgrade because of its struggling Hong Kong operation. More...
Michael Stutchbury. The election's central blindspot is the need to invest more of our rising national income in development of all kinds More...
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British Airways on Friday announced a pre-tax loss of 164 million pounds ($US256.5 million) for the three months ending June 30. More...
US economic growth slowed between April and June, with GDP growing by an annualised rate of 2.4%, the US Commerce Department says. More...
The incoming BP chief executive has said it is time to scale back some parts of the oil spill clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico. More...
China has surpassed Japan to become the world's second largest economy, lagging only behind the United States, a Chinese government official said in remarks published on Friday. More...
Crude oil increased, capping its biggest monthly gain since March, as rallies in commodities led by wheat and aluminum took the S&P GSCI Commodity Index to a 12- week high. More...
Airbus parent firm EADS says it is confident about future orders, despite reporting a fall in second-quarter earnings. More...
Samsung Electronics has reported record quarterly profits thanks to increased sales of smartphones and components such as memory chips. More...
Entertainment giant Walt Disney has announced the sale of its Miramax film division for about $US660m to a group of private equity investors. More...
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo subpoenaed Genworth Financial Inc., Unum Group and an insurer acquired by France’s Axa SA as the state widens a life- insurance fraud probe More...
Spain's unemployment rate rose to 20.09 percent for the second quarter of 2010, up from 20.05 percent from the previous quarter, Spain's National Statistics Institute said Friday. More...
Facebook Inc. will probably put off its initial public offering until 2012, giving Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg more time to gain users and boost sales, three people familiar with the matter said. More...
The world's largest toothpaste maker reported disappointing sales Thursday, and who's to blame? None other than the country of Venezuela, the company said. More...
Northwest Airlines will plead guilty and pay a $US38m fine for fixing air-cargo prices, the US justice department says. More...
Paul La Monica. The US economy is heading nowhere fast. That's the bad news. But the good news is that it still seems like consumers may have actually learned a lesson or two about reckless fiscal behavior. More...