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Byline: John Stensholt Dec 17, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review Magazine - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian sailor Tom Slingsby's victory in the Laser class at the London 2012 Olympic Games was the...
View ArticleExperts Tip 2pc Cash Rate
Byline: Jane Searle Dec 17, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australia's official cash rate is likely to fall to a new low of two per cent in 2013, according to ANZ Banking...
View ArticleGo-Ahead for 'Too Big' Tower
Byline: Rebecca Thistleton Dec 17, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Victorian Planning Minister Matthew Guy has approved the new Tower Melbourne apartments high-rise project...
View ArticleSunRice Hits Back over Price Claims
Byline: Andrew White Dec 17, 2012 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian rice exporter SunRice has responded to criticism by its largest shareholder, Colin Bell. He commissioned a report that...
View ArticleRio Plays Catch-Up in Sell-Off Stakes
Byline: Matt Chambers Dec 17, 2012 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto are selling non-core assets to provide cash. BHP had already shed assets worth $US4.4 billion ($A4.2...
View ArticleMMG to Start Work on $1.5Bn Zinc Mine
Byline: Barry FitzGerald Dec 17, 2012 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Hong Kong-listed MMG has conditionally approved the development of the Dugald River project in Queensland, with a final...
View ArticleThai Airways Settles in ACCC Cartel Case
Byline: Susannah Moran Dec 17, 2012 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Thai Airways has settled a case of price fixing brought by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. On 17 December...
View ArticleStudent Aid: Coalition Asks If Too Much for Some
Byline: Jake Mitchell Dec 17, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Coalition will review student support if it gains government in 2013. Opposition spokesman for universities...
View ArticleMarket Monitor Warns against Window Dressing
Byline: Lucy Battersby Dec 17, 2012 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Fund managers have been warned of increased scrutiny by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission...
View ArticleNetus to Add Growth Strategy
Byline: Stephen Shore and Ben Holgate Dec 17, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Fairfax Media could derive significant benefits from its proposed acquisition of Netus,...
View ArticleUS Boss Bids $527M for Billabong
Byline: Blair Speedy Dec 17, 2012 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Billabong International's shares were suspended from trading on 17 December 2012 in response to a takeover bid. US-based...
View ArticleFairfax Digital Drive Remains on Track
Byline: Ben Holgate Dec 17, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Fairfax Media CEO Greg Hywood has defended the group's decision to sell its 51% stake in Trade Me. He reaffirmed...
View ArticleInterest Rates to Hit 100-Year Low, ANZ Forecasts
Byline: Peter Martin Dec 17, 2012 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Ivan Colhoun, head of Australian research at ANZ Banking, predicts the Reserve Bank of Australia will make four...
View ArticleLenders Baulk at Rescue Plan for Nine
Byline: Gareth Hutchens Dec 17, 2012 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Federal Court of Australia has heard a number of Nine Entertainment's lenders do not support a scheme of arrangement that would...
View ArticleBouris and Packer to Deliver the Goods
Byline: Mark Hawthorne Dec 17, 2012 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian-listed TZ will roll out lockers featuring smart technology at 50 locations across the nation, in a joint venture with...
View ArticleSale Closes IAG's British Book
Byline: Mitchell Bingemann Dec 17, 2012 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Insurance Australia Group (IAG) has advised that it is likely to incur a loss of $A240m from the sale of its UK assets. The...
View ArticleSupport for Mirvac, Australand Merger
Byline: Gretchen Friemann Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A possible merger between property groups, Mirvac Group and Australand, is viewed positively by analysts...
View ArticleGovernor Looks to the Future
Byline: Jacob Greber Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens is considering his options, with his seven-year term due...
View ArticleInsider Trading Charges Stick to Khoo, Tan
Byline: Claire Stewart Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Sentencing will occur in the District Court of New South Wales in January 2013 for two men who have pleaded...
View ArticleParty Angry over Aid Switch
Byline: Phillip Coorey Dec 18, 2012 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian Labor Party backbenchers have criticised the Government's decision to redirect foreign aid funding....
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