Markets Slide as Korean Tension Escalates
Byline: David Rogers Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- North Korea's latest hydrogen bomb test weighed on sharemarkets in the Asia-Pacific region on 4 September. The Hang Seng Index...
View ArticleLinfox Buys Lion's Share to Take Full Control of BevChain Drinks Venture
Byline: Jenny Wiggins Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Linfox has moved to full ownership of BevChain, the drinks distribution and warehousing venture it started with...
View ArticlePlatinum's Pick Wins Hearts & Minds Benefit
Byline: Jonathan Shapiro Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Fund managers such as Platinum Asset Management founder Kerr Neilson and Hamish Douglass of Magellan took...
View ArticleNetwork's New Deal Lets CBS Put Gun to Fox's Head
Byline: Elizabeth Knight Sep 04, 2017 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Although most of the Ten Network's creditors will be paid all outstanding debts if the CBS deal proceeds, rival media group 21st...
View ArticleWe'd Back Minority ALP Rule: Greens
Byline: Troy Bramston Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian Greens leader Richard Di Natale says that he could not envisage the party supporting a minority federal Liberal...
View ArticleHeat on ACTU as Outsourced Jobs Row Flares
Byline: Ewin Hannan Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- AustralianSuper and IFM Investors are being pressured over their majority stake in Ausgrid. The electricity firm is outsourcing 35...
View ArticleFailing Co-Op Leaves Dairy Men with Sour Taste
Byline: Sue Neales Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Long-time Murray Goulburn supplier Jim Munro has had enough of the struggling dairy processor. The Victoria-based dairy farmer says...
View ArticleNXT Plan 'May Help' Media Web Titans
Byline: Rosie Lewis Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Senator Nick Xenophon has acknowledged that his revised proposal to give tax breaks to smaller media companies does not...
View ArticleField for CBA Race Whittled
Byline: James Eyers Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has announced several board changes as it begins searching for a successor to...
View ArticleBHP's Olympic Dam Set to Cash in on Copper Revival
Byline: Simon Evans Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- BHP Billiton has been testing the heap leach process on ore from its Olympic Dam copper mine in South Australia...
View ArticleSteady as She Goes for RBA on Interest Rates
Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The consensus of market economists is that the Reserve Bank of Australia will leave the cash rate unchanged at 1.5 per cent in September. Paul Brennan...
View ArticleNorth Korean Fallout Hits Shares
Byline: Angus Peniston-Bird Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian sharemarket lost ground on 4 September 2017, with the S&P/ASX 200 easing 0.4 per cent to close at 5,702...
View ArticleFive Ways to Fix the Grid without New Coal Power
Byline: Ben Potter Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Energy Market Operator has produced a report into dispatchable power supply on the east coast, and...
View ArticleFallout over Cladding Could Slow Development
Byline: Michael Bleby Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Professional indemnity insurers are increasingly seeking to insert in policies covering private building...
View ArticleLift Output or Standards Will Fall: Treasury
Byline: Karen Maley Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- New data shows that labour productivity in Australia by grew by an average of 1.8 per cent annually in the five...
View ArticleShorten Releases His Citizenship Proof
Byline: Rosie Lewis Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has tabled paperwork in Federal Parliament which shows that he ceased being a British citizen in...
View ArticleStudio Deals Blamed for Collapse of Ten
Byline: Darren Davidson Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Administrator KordaMentha has released a report which concludes that Ten Network did not become insolvent until 13 June, and...
View ArticleiSelect Hits the Shopping Centres to Win over Customers
Byline: Alice Uribe Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- iSelect will place kiosks in shopping centres around Australia in an effort to attract more business from...
View ArticleStevens to Share Global View with Ellerston Advisory Role
Byline: Jonathan Shapiro Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Former Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens has joined Ellerston Capital's new Ellerston Global...
View ArticleAdamantem Rejected 'Settlement' Offer
Byline: Vesna Poljak Sep 04, 2017 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners has launched legal action against Adamantem Capital. Adamantem was...
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