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Sydney Airport gets air traffic boosts 
Passengers are flying again and Sydney Airport has reported double-digit upswing in both domestic and international travellers last February. According to owner MAp Group, the airport has posted a 12.3 percent growth in domestic passengers while international flyers are up to 11.8 ...
19 Mar 2010
Executive sentenced 22 months in prison over market manipulation 
Former Genetic Technologies Limited (Genetic) chief operating officer, Geoffrey Edgar Newing, was handed a custodial sentence in the County Court of Victoria following an investigation by the ASIC into the trading of the company's shares, listed on the ASX under the stock code ...
19 Mar 2010
Jury fails to reach verdict in Shand corruption case 
A jury has failed to reach a decision in the corruption trial of Brisbane businessman Harold Shand, who is accused of secretly paying former Queensland government minister Gordon Nuttal. $60,000 in ...
19 Mar 2010
ASIC bans Victoria exec to trade for ten years 
Market regulator Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) on Friday banned Charles Phillip Grummisch, 58, of Warrandyte, Victoria, from trading and engaging financial service for ten years for violating financial services ...
19 Mar 2010
Bankers, lawyers fill job markets as recovery is underway 
As the economy is crawling its way back to recovery phase, bankers, accountants and lawyers are the lead packs and are making headways for either regaining or retaining job slots available in the market. In contrast, shop clerks and transport workers, who either quit or fired, are not being ...
19 Mar 2010
 
Companies
Google to seal business with China 
Chinese media reported on Friday that US net giant Google will close its business in China on April 2010 and may broadcast its plans next ...
20 Mar 2010
ASIC initiates settlement for Storm crisis 
Opting for the best resolution, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is conducting private discussions with parties involved in the financial meltdown of Storm Financial. ...
19 Mar 2010
McLaren plans high end sports car 
McLaren plan for high end sport car to challenge other sports carmakers and to reassure a secured long term future for McLaren ...
19 Mar 2010
Solomon resource upgraded to underpin mine development: Fortescue 
Fortescue plans to upgrade its Solomon iron core deposit, underwriting stage one development of a major mining operation at Soloman, with a target production of 60 million tonnes a year. A report is likely by the end of this ...
19 Mar 2010
Teenager clinches Gold Coast's biggest property deal, thanks to rainbows 
The teenage son of Consolidated Properties project partner Mike Dodd seals Hope Island deal with Dong Pty Ltd, with fengshui, and two rainbows that appeared at the back of the site in gold coast, ...
19 Mar 2010
 
Markets
IG Markets Australian Market Wrap 
The Australia 200 CFD Index closed 0.2% firmer, with gains among industrials and energy offsetting materials weakness. ...
19 Mar 2010
Telstra sees "significant gap" between parties in NBN talks 
Testra says there is a gap between it and NBN company on proposed financial outcome of the proposed national broadband network (NBN). Also Testra is discussing the ways that the gap could be bridge. The talks are ...
19 Mar 2010
IG Markets Morning Prices & thoughts 
On Wall St overnight, stocks were flat to slightly higher as economic data showed the US economy is expanding without pickup in inflation, which is positive for the outlook for interest ...
19 Mar 2010
Australian Dollar Outlook Mar 19 
The Australian Dollar has opened little changed this morning, trading within recent ranges overnight with no major economic data to drive the ...
19 Mar 2010
Kathmandu Shows How To Make An Entrance 
Kathmandu has delivered a better than expected initial interim profit result and with its store rollout program ahead of schedule brokers have lifted forecasts for coming ...
19 Mar 2010
 
Money
Academy launch signals Club's growth plans 
Looking to double its broker network before the end of the year, Club Financial Services has announced the launch a new recruitment and training initiative - the Club ...
22 Mar 2010
Aussie consumers no longer put consumptions on credit cards 
(PRWEB) 20 March 2010 -Current reports reveal Australian consumers are clearly using debt much more sensibly than they were in the halcyon days before the GFC, wherein it took a gut-wrenched global financial crisis to do ...
20 Mar 2010
Petrol price escalate, no relief available - for now 
Petrol prices rises today to a 16-month high and analysts said that users of petrol should expect very little relief for the time being. ...
19 Mar 2010
Ray White sales up 20% 
In a result indicative of the market absorbing recent interest rate rises, Australasian property and real estate group Ray White has jumped its residential and commercial sales by 20% for February ...
19 Mar 2010
US Federal Reserve removes housing support 
The Federal Reserve has cancelled its program of buying mortgage-backed securities in another sign that conditions in the US are stabilising enough that this pillar of support is no longer ...
19 Mar 2010
 
Technology
Skype offers 2,016 free Wi-Fi hotspots across Australia this weekend 
Skype has partnered with Wi-Fi hotspot provider Boingo to provide 2,016 free WiFi access spots across Australia this ...
20 Mar 2010
Dramatica owner refuses to budge on 'racist' content about Aboriginals 
The owner of takeoff site, Encyclopedia Dramatica says he will not remove offensive content from the site, after being targeted by Australia's Human Rights Commission for ...
20 Mar 2010
IPad expected to beat iPhone's first 3-month sales? 
The iPad's pre-orders have been strong enough that they could outrun even the original iPhone's first 3-month sales as "hundreds of thousands" of units are said to have been pre-ordered, according to sources quoted by the Wall Street ...
20 Mar 2010
Google patches Chrome ahead of hacking contest 
Google has patched as many as 11 vulnerabilities in the Windows version of its Chrome browser, including one that earned its finder the first US$1,337 check from the company's new bug bounty ...
20 Mar 2010
Hollywood, Bollywood join hands against piracy 
Hollywood and Bollywood will join forces to combat piracy, with the announcement of a coalition among the Motion Picture Association of America and seven Indian companies to tackle counterfeiting in one of the world's largest film ...
20 Mar 2010
 
Small Business
 
Entertainment
Katherine Heigl's embarrassing wardrobe malfunction 
Katherine Heigl almost became half naked in public when her dress strap snapped while she was accepting an award on ...
20 Mar 2010
Comedian Fiona O'Loughlin refuses to apologize for making hurtful comments on Bindi Irwin  
Fiona O'Loughlin makes nasty remarks about Bindi Irwin but refuses to ...
20 Mar 2010
Lady Gaga sued by former boyfriend /songwriter/producer 
Music producer and songwriter cum former boyfriend of Lady Gaga sues her for US$35 ...
20 Mar 2010
Music producer sues Lady Gaga 
Lady GaGa is being sued for a reported $35 million by her former producer and boyfriend. ...
19 Mar 2010
Jennifer Hawkins look for new home with boyfriend 
Top model Jennifer Hawkins and her long-term boyfriend Jake Wall look for new love nest ...
19 Mar 2010
 
IBTimes Exclusives
Aussie consumers no longer put consumptions on credit cards
(PRWEB) 20 March 2010 -Current reports reveal Australian consumers are clearly using debt much more sensibly than they were in the halcyon days before the GFC, wherein it took a gut-wrenched global financial crisis to do ...
20 Mar 2010
Google to seal business with China
Chinese media reported on Friday that US net giant Google will close its business in China on April 2010 and may broadcast its plans next ...
20 Mar 2010
Katherine Heigl's embarrassing wardrobe malfunction
Katherine Heigl almost became half naked in public when her dress strap snapped while she was accepting an award on ...
20 Mar 2010
Comedian Fiona O'Loughlin refuses to apologize for making hurtful comments on Bindi Irwin
Fiona O'Loughlin makes nasty remarks about Bindi Irwin but refuses to ...
20 Mar 2010
Men charged with assaulting elderly couple in Tuart Hill
With the help from publics, police managed to arrest both of the man who involved in house invasion incident in Tuart ...
20 Mar 2010
 
AP Live
Virgin Atlantic full-year profit climbs 17%
Virgin Atlantic Airways said Tuesday that full-year profit excluding exception charges rose nearly 17 per cent despite volatile fuel ...
27 May 2009
Babcock buys time with voluntary administration
Debt-laden Australian investment firm Babcock & Brown Ltd. was placed into voluntary administration on Friday after shareholders rejected a proposed debt ...
16 Mar 2009
Madoff pleads guilty and goes to jail in handcuffs
Saying he was "deeply sorry and ashamed," Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty Thursday to pulling off perhaps the biggest swindle in Wall Street history and was immediately led off to jail in handcuffs to the delight of his seething ...
13 Mar 2009
World Bank says global economy will shrink in 2009
The World Bank said Sunday that the global economy will shrink this year for the first time since World War II and that the global financial crisis will make it tougher for poor and developing nations to access needed ...
10 Mar 2009
Major stock market indexes fall to 1997 levels
Wall Street has turned the clock back to 1997. Investors unable to extinguish their worries about a recession that has no end in sight dumped stocks again Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 251 points to its lowest close since Oct. 28, 1997, while the Standard & Poor's 500 ...
24 Feb 2009
 
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