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Agricultural chemicals supplier Nufarm is in trouble after its shares plunged 28% in trading yesterday after Wednesday...

Agricultural chemicals supplier Nufarm is in trouble after its shares plunged 28% in trading yesterday after Wednesday...

Late news from both BP and Goldman Sachs turned Wall Street around from economic data weakness last night. Dow down 7.

Sales figures for Australian supermarket chains Coles and Woolworths (ASX: WOW) will be studied over the next two weeks to measure the effect of the marketing war waged between the two in the last six months.

Gold medals have been awarded at the 2010 Royal Queensland Food & Wine Show's Olive Oil Competition, held from 12-13 July at the RNA Showgrounds. Table olives were in competition for the first time, and alongside one of the leading figures in the Australian olive industry, Mrs Margi Kirkby, as c...

Melbourne-based OZ Minerals announced on Thursday that it is set to commence development works on its underground mine at Prominent Hill in South Australia, which is projected to yield an average of 25,000 tonnes of copper and 12,000 tonnes of gold every year.

China's iron ore miner Sinosteel Midwest Corporation has finished a feasibility study on its $2 billion flagship direct shipping ore project at Weld Range in Western Australia.

Fortescue Metals Group Ltd (FMG) said on Thursday that lingering reservations on the proposed minerals resource rent tax were holding back the firm’s final decisions on two impending giant projects at Solomon and Western hub in Western Australia.

Sigma Pharmaceuticals Ltd has downgraded its profit forecast for the full year by around 31 percent as it strives to convince Aspen Pharmacare to up its takeover bid worth $A649.73 million ($US573 million).

China's Q2 data failed to re-assure investors that all is fine and will remain fine inside the Middle Kingdom.

Netherlands firm Albert Heijn has launched an app for its customers to help them create shopping lists by scanning barcodes of products they are running out of using their mobile phone camera.The app, dubbed Appie, also sorts the groceries on the lists according to the walking route in their local A...

French retail giant Carrefour has signed an agreement to acquire 51% of Chinese hypermarket operator Baolongcang.The founders of Baolongcang, one of the main hypermarket operators in Hebei, near Beijing, will keep a 49% stake in the 11-store chain.The acquisition has been approved by local competiti...

The Australia 200 CFD Index finished 0.4% lower at 4442.6, with both defensive and cyclical sectors weighing.

Reaching 11 million tonnes in the three months to the end of June, exports of iron ore by Fortescue Metals Group (ASX:FMG) climbed 36 per cent from the equivalent period last year.

China seems living up to economic speculations by global experts as Beijing stepped up its efforts to slow down the country’s accelerating expansion with the latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showing that the Chinese economy merely grew at a rate of 10.3 percent over the year and leading to June.

Cotton On, the clothing firm based in Victoria, has paid back about $300,000 to thousands of workers that have been underpaid.

Queensland’s construction industry has been on the decline for the past three months as a new report by the Queensland Master Builders Association (QMBA) showed on Thursday that up to 75 percent of polled businesses believed that building activity would either decline or stabilise in the coming 12 months.

The median expected inflation rate in July edged down to 3.3 per cent, from 3.4 per cent in June, less than two weeks before Australia's crucial second-quarter consumer price index report is scheduled for release, according to the Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Inflationary Expectations.

NAB (National Australia Bank Limited) has said talks over the possible divestment of AXA APH’s (AXA Asia Pacific Holding) Wealth.net arm were still on-going just several hours before the exclusivity deal of NAB over its $13.3 billion offer lapses.

China's GDP grew an annualised 10.3% in the second quarter, below consensus.

The Australian sharemarket is currently trading slightly lower with the All Ordinaries index (XAO) down 0.20pct or 8.5pts to 4468.8 at lunch.

International fast-fashion brand Zara is heading for Australia next year, according to parent Inditex, one of the world's largest retail clothing group based in Spain.

The latest ING Investor Dashboard Sentiment Survey shows Australian investment sentiment fell sharply in the June quarter.

Jetstar Airways, which yesterday announced its first direct flights between Australia and the New Zealand resort town of Queenstown, has called for an end to requiring passports for travels between the two countries.

BigAir has a dominant share of a microwave market which both challenges and compliments Australia's planned fibre network.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) urged the Japanese government on Wednesday to continue its policy of curtailing Japan’s ballooning debt by finally imposing the controversial consumption tax hike as it stressed that fiscal reforms policy should ideally commence next year with the sales levy setting its footprint on the economy in a gradual pace.

U.S. stocks closed mixed Wednesday, with the Dow industrials just managing to extend their recent winning streak, as an upbeat forecast from Intel Corp. vied with more disconcerting views on the U.S. economy from retailers and the Federal Reserve.

A mixed bag of comment from Rio Tinto in its second quarter and first half production report issued yesterday.There was ...

A mixed bag of comment from Rio Tinto in its second quarter and first half production report issued yesterday.There was ...