By Greg PeelUS markets were closed last night for the Labor Day holiday. The long weekend signals the end of the summer break and brokers are hopeful of a pick-up in volumes from here as traders return just in time for supposed central bank action.
Australia's retail sector showed unexpected poor sales in July and broadly trickling down to the fragile profits of businesses still gaping for low demand for exports in Europe.
Two months after it acquired a 4 per cent controlling stake in Virgin Australia Holdings, Abu Dhabi's flagship carrier Etihad Airways on Sunday announced this has been increased to 10 per cent, even as it reiterated it will not push for a majority stake ownership in Australia's second-largest airline.
Nestle, one of the largest food companies in the world, has extended its Product Technology Centre situated in Konolfingen, Switzerland in order to increase its research and development. The extension is likely to help Nestle enhance the company's innovative equipment for the purpose of new goods development and employ these for the international operations of the company.
Wednesday's Daily Reckoning promised you a guide to Australia's coming deflation. But the mainstream media stole our thunder.
The Powers that Be are hunkered down in Jackson Hole for their annual international central banking symposium, a jaw-gabbing event where the world's "brightest" economists get together to come up with the world's dumbest "solutions"...solutions to problems largely caused by their last round of "solutions."
Qantas Airways is all set to finalise a code-sharing agreement with Emirates Airlines, which reports said would provide a wider gateway for the national carrier to secure more profitable routes in Europe.
Rising pork prices, coupled with a declining domestic supply, could trigger high inflationary rates across China over the next year.
French businesses that hire a person aged between 16 and 25 for at least a year may only have to pay as little as 25 percent of the individual's salary starting from 2013.
The modest gains on the Australian sharemarket were short lived this morning, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) now completely flat to 4339.2. Most sectors are improving; however the mining sector is once again one of the biggest drags on trade.
The biggest of the Big Pharmas, Pfizer, has agreed to pay $60 million in fines to the federal government to settle charges the company paid millions of dollars in bribes to foreign officials.
Over the 16 weeks leading up to August 26, Dubai saw a bullish market driven by property. On Sunday August 12, Nakheel announced that demand was expected to remain high for properties on the island. The Dubai developer made the statement as it announced the sale of a 305,704sqft plot for Dh1,302 ($520) per square foot to an unidentified local investor.
The Australian government is about to face its own budget problems. Today's Australian Financial Review reports that the government's budget is in tatters. Tumbling iron ore prices will blast a massive hole in the numbers.
Everyone SEO recently feels as if they have there heads on a Google Guillotine after updates to search engine rankings this year.
By Rudi Filapek-Vandyck, Editor FNArenaI joined Twitter. Not because I am curious what this celebrity has to say about her kids, or to read that another one is waiting for a connecting flight, impatiently.
The Victoria police have deployed hundreds of officers to the Grocon Myer Emporium construction site in Melbourne to secure the area occupied by members of the union. With their presence, the police safety secretly escorted 35 Grocon non-union employees inside the $250-million site.
By Greg PeelTourism was once Australia's second biggest industry, but that was in the days when a more inviting Australian dollar made visiting Australia for a holiday relatively inexpensive, despite the tyranny of distance.
By Peter Switzer, Switzer Super ReportD-Day for Europe and the world's financial markets looms, not on Friday with the Jackson Hole Symposium in Wyoming, but next Thursday when the European Central Bank (ECB) outlines its game plan for liquidity and bond-buying in Europe.
Prices of iron ore dipped further on Wednesday to $90.30 per tonne, indicating worse days ahead for Australia's resource sector. The $4.50 decline, reckoned since May, is equivalent to a 38 per cent fall.
The remarks of Australia's richest woman, Gina Rinehart, over the social life of minimum wage workers as well as her suggestion to lower the current weekly minimum pay has become viral.
By Greg PeelThe Dow fell 106 points or 0.8% while the S&P dropped 0.8% to 1399 and the Nasdaq fell 1.0%.
Constantly competing for new sustainable and environment-friendly fuels, the Shell Group focused all efforts on a prominent goal of attaining corporate efficiency by means of sustaining the environment at no matter the costs?
The Australian sharemarket had its worst day in a month, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) losing 0.9 pct or 41.3 pts to 4340.2. The defensive healthcare and telco sectors recorded some modest improvements; however all other industries ended in the red. Disappointing economic news added to the weakness earlier in the session.
While some Australian miners are considering foraying into Africa, KPMG is warning them to proceed at their own risk.
Overnight the US market were slightly higher after investors weighed up the good news that the US economy grew more than expected in the 2nd quarter of 2012, but then the Federal Reserve regional report on the economy, the Beige book, showed more signs that the US economy is still only recovering slowly.
Two weeks after Chery Auto, China's largest domestic automobile manufacturer and exporter, recalled some 23,000 vehicle units from Australia due to findings of potential cancer-causing asbestos in some models, the company announced it is set to recall an additional 18,000 units from overseas, still due to the same reason.
www.globalpropertyguide.comNo end to the global housing market downturn is yet visible, except probably in the US, according to a survey of global house price trends by the Global Property Guide. Asia is weakening, and house price falls in the worst-hit European crisis countries are dramatically accelerating.
What Samsung has been up to since losing its U.S. legal battle with Apple last week? It appears the tech giant is far from licking its wound, opting instead to push out two new gadgets that it hopes would soon eclipse the court room disappointments it just absorbed.
Controversy continues to hound Gina Rinehart, Australia's richest woman, due to a column she wrote for the Australian Resources and Investment magazine where she suggested lowering the minimum wage of $606.40 a week.
Prospects for industrial peace in Grocon construction sites appears bleaker as the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) disclosed plans to further prolong the ongoing strike which on Thursday entered its ninth day.
