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Oil and gas prices have been going up, and the whole thing continues to take up an important piece of the spotlight.
By Greg PeelThe Dow rose 160 points or 1.2% while the S&P gained 1.4% to 1416 and the Nasdaq added 1.8%.
The Cancer Society is against the planned increase of New Zealand export of tobacco products to Australia. While the hiked production of cigarettes would lead to the creation of 50 new jobs in the next 24 months, it would also cause the loss of 20,000 lives yearly in Australia, Cancer Society Health Promotion Manager Jan Pearson said.
In a bid to further modernise the operations of its post office, Australia Post announced on Monday the launch of the online digital mailbox.
The fifth generation iOS, the operating system for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) mobile devices, was released in October last year alongside the iPhone 4S. Also made available for older devices, iOS 5 promised 200 new features. iOS 5 introduced the iCloud service, revamped notifications, improvements to native apps such as the Camera, new applications like Reminders, Newsstand, and iMessage.
The local share market ended the day's trade on a subdued note, which was expected to be the theme of the day given no release of local economic data and mixed offshore leads on Friday. Despite a strong start, mining stocks dragged on the overall market seeing the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) close down 5.5pts to 4355.2.
Apple's incredible success has produced side industries that convinced enterprising individuals to take a slice on the billons that the American tech giant has been raking since its renaissance in mid-2000.
Friday marks the end of an eventful first quarter for financial markets.
Still, TDS describes the commodity picture as "positive" for the longer term.
Frequent riders of budget airliners flying short-haul routes in Asia have another airline alternative to use as Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd. and China Eastern Airlines Corp. announced the establishment of a joint venture (JV) that will give birth to a Hong Kong-based budget airline craft.
Was last week a reminder to the bulls that the rebound is becoming overbought, or were the big falls (especially in Europe) a timely warning that the problems which gave us the miserable final quarter for 2011 (and 2010) are still with us?
Commodities-focused firms have reasons to worry as analysts were in agreement that China is headed this year to a soft landing, early on announcing to limit its growth by no more than 8.5 percent as expressed when the National People's Congress reconvened this month.
Qantas will use vegetable cooking oil for a historic test flight between Sydney and Adelaide on April 13.
(This story was first published on Wednesday, 21st March 2012. It has now been re-published to make it available to non-paying members at FNArena and to readers elsewhere).
The positive leads from global markets led by the rise in the U.S. equities Friday have not provided enough boost to prop up the sentiment in the Australian stock market early on Monday.
By Kathleen Brooks, Research Director UK EMEA, FOREX.com• Searching for the next crisis• What's driving the dollar?• Europe: what happened to the LTRO?A couple of weeks ago the market was able to shrug off the prospect of a Greek default and a sharply rising oil price.
Boeing joined the chorus of opposition against the now controversial emission trading scheme of the European Union (EU) and called on Brussels to seriously reconsider the economic implications of its new regulation.
You've heard of small man syndrome, but do drivers of small cars suffer from a similar need to overcompensate for their vehicle's diminutive dimensions? According to a study commissioned by local insurer AAMI, the answer is yes.
The long wait for the Android 4.0 update for Samsung's Galaxy Note has been further extended, with the giant Asian mobile device maker admitting this week that Ice Cream Sandwich's (ICS) arrival will be delayed.
The successor to the Maserati Quattroporte has been spied testing on an icetrack in Sweden.
Australia's property obsession is reaching a frenzy. There is talk of a being able to bet on a new property index, clearance rates are making news alongside gossip columns and some analysts are warning of an impending crash.
India has long been touted as the next coming emerging economy, and judging by the performance up to last year, it was a contender.
With the reports in the past week from Myer, David Jones, Kathmandu and OrotonGroup we know Australian retailing had a tough six months or so at the back end of 2011 and early this year, but has it been as tough as much of the reporting and commentary suggested?
They've been gathering strength now for a couple of months - February saw them start to sound very upbeat.
UK house prices rose 1.11% during 2011, according to Nationwide. However in inflation-adjusted terms, UK house prices were actually down by 3.4%, following a series of annual house price drops during the past three quarters.
Qantas Airways has rejected a Senate proposal that would require the airline to first secure clearance with government regulators before it can implement fleet grounding like it did last year.
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The $200 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) fresh initiatives in Australia got another boost this week as Woodside Petroleum Ltd revealed the imminent shift to full production activity of its Pluto LNG processing facility in Western Australia.
By Greg PeelThe Dow closed down 78 points or 0.6% while the S&P lost 0.7% to 1392 and the Nasdaq fell 0.
