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About 3,000 more ANZ customers have registered interest in a class action against their bank in a 24-hour period. Organisers behind the campaign to recruit ANZ New Zealand customers for the class action ...

Australian television rights for the next two Summer Olympic Games are likely be sold as a bundle after all three major TV networks failed to bid for the upcoming Rio Games, Nine Network boss Jeff Browne ...

A measure of economic growth in the coming months has strengthened because of growing company profits and gains on the share market. The Westpac Melbourne Institute Leading Index, which indicates the likely ...

The share market has rallied as investors watch for news on whether the US Federal Reserve will keep printing money to boost the US economy. The Federal Reserve is due to announce its plans early Thursday ...

Rupert Murdoch's new News Corp publishing business failed to impress investors in its stock market debut, losing three per cent of its value. The massive media empire is splitting its growing and more ...

The Australian government may share information with European taxation authorities under global efforts to cut avoidance, Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan says. Mr Swan announced the proposal after the Group ...

Telstra has released damning findings from a review of its contractors who remove asbestos from its telecommunications pits. Telstra's infrastructure is being used to roll out the National Broadband Network ...

A native title group in Western Australia's Pilbara has inked a land use deal with Rio Tinto despite objections by rival claimants. On Wednesday, Rio Tinto and Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) ...

The Australian dollar recovered from early weakness to end Wednesday little changed as traders marked time ahead of a key monetary policy decision in the US. At 1700 AEST on Wednesday, the Aussie was trading ...

Australian shares have gained ground as investors took a cautiously optimistic stance ahead of a keenly awaited update on economic stimulus measures in the United States. US Federal Reserve chairman Ben ...

The Australian dollar recovered from early weakness to end Wednesday little changed as traders marked time ahead of a key monetary policy decision in the US. At 1700 AEST on Wednesday, the Aussie was trading ...

New data suggests the Australian economy will be growing at an above trend pace heading into 2014, building on its outperformance of leading economies. Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan used a gathering of ...

Embattled entrepreneur Nathan Tinkler has denied being forced by his lender into the $600 million sale that has ended his involvement with Whitehaven Coal. His long-time financier, Farallon Funds announced ...

An Italian court on Wednesday sentenced fashion house duo Dolce & Gabbana to one year and eight months in prison for tax evasion of 200 million euros ($268 million) They were also ordered by the court ...

Cyprus denied on Wednesday that it is trying to wriggle out of bailout commitments after President Nicos Anastasiades wrote a letter to international lenders criticising the terms of the deal. The European ...

India's top automaker Tata Motors unveiled a new version of what was once billed as the world's cheapest car Wednesday, in a bid to reverse a slump in sales. The jellybean-shaped Nano, which sold for around ...

The EU executive on Wednesday imposed hefty fines of around 150 million euros on pharmaceutical firms including Denmark's Lundbeck for colluding to delay the sale a decade ago of a cheap generic version ...

Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group announced Wednesday it will invest nearly $1.6 billion to acquire British yacht maker Sunseeker and build London's tallest residential towers. The plans mark the latest ...

Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange at close on Wednesday: CHC - CHARTER HALL GROUP - up 24 cents at $3.89 Property firm Charter Hall and an associated superannuation fund have paid $458 million ...

The Australian share market closed higher on Thursday, with positive manufacturing data out of the US overnight and China during the day promoting positive investor sentiment.

Canberra motorists may soon have cheaper compulsory third party premiums as three more insurers enter the ACT market. Although the government had opened up the compulsory third party insurance market to ...

The Airbus next-generation A350 plane took centre stage at the Paris Air Show on Wednesday, winning multi-billion-dollar deals ahead of a much-anticipated possible fly-over. The news comes just days after ...

The US agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland has been forced to confront a history of alleged price-fixing and market-rigging as its seeks to win regulatory approval for its controversial takeover ...

Entrepreneur Nathan Tinkler has sold about half of his stake in miner Whitehaven Coal to his financier Farallon Funds. The financially troubled businessman has sold a stake of 9.9 per cent for about $300 ...

Britain's Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed government sanctions that had been imposed on Bank Mellat, Iran's largest private bank, due to its alleged links to Tehran's disputed nuclear programme. The ...

Spain's biting recession may end soon but the outlook is tough and Madrid must do more to battle the country's unacceptably high unemployment rate, the IMF warned Wednesday. Spain's economy, still reeling ...

The Townsville Fire basketball team says it is urgently seeking a major sponsor after losing the support of Clive Palmer's business, Queensland Nickel. The north Queensland side placed second in the competition ...

Bankers found guilty of "reckless misconduct" in Britain in the wake of the global financial crisis and Libor rate-rigging scandal could end up in prison and stripped of bonuses, under proposals ...

Cyprus denied on Wednesday that it is trying to wriggle out of bailout commitments after President Nicos Anastasiades wrote a letter to international lenders criticising the terms of the deal. The European ...

The current fad for warning of an imminent recession in Australia is likely to go the way of caftans and paisley polyester body-shirts. Most of the arguments in favour of a recession being at least a possibility ...

Telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent announced a radical new strategy on Wednesday to climb out of years of crisis with cost cutting, asset sales and a restructuring of debt. The group is to specialise ...

When Marly Quincoces wanted to grab the attention of potential clients for her South Florida event planning company, StarMar Events, she made a YouTube video in front of a white board giving tips on how ...

Adelaide clothing retailer Trims has gone into liquidation, after being in business since 1937. Administrator Andre Strazdins of BRI Ferrier said there was a potential buyer for the company's assets and ...