Leighton Holdings (ASX: LEI) has confirmed the previously provided guidance for the 12 months to 30 June 2012 for an after tax profit of between $600-650 million after completing a detailed forecasting review across all of its operating companies.
The engineering and construction markets in Australia are expected to grow strongly over the next few years, according to construction giant Leighton Holdings (ASX: LEI).
Owners of cars exposed to the Fukushima radiation are auctioning off the vehicles around Japan after failing to export and decontaminate them.
By Greg PeelThe Dow rose 339 points or 2.9% while the S&P gained 3.4% to 1284 and the Nasdaq added 3.3%.
Apple's Siri may be the new media darling these days but that doesn't mean that Google's Voice Search is going to stand being ignored. Google uploaded a pair of new videos to its YouTube channel that show two Australian engineers pushing the limits of Google's Voice Search.
Rio Tinto plans to conduct a complex testing program in 2012 for its VK1 exploration technology.
Speculations are abuzz that Australia's coal market is nearing its zenith, what with the latest intent of Australian coal miner New Hope Corp. wanting to be bought out in the tune of $5 billion.
Australian affordable tablet computer manufacturer Kogan may have given in to pressure from Apple not to sell Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, but two retailers are resisting Apple.
The Australian Stock Exchange is back online after trading was halted for four hours on Thursday due to a technical glitch. Trading resumed 2 p.m. after the market stopped at 10:05 a.m.
More Australian consumers are shifting to plastic money to do their purchases. As a result credit and debit card transactions are expected to reach 4 billion in 2011.
Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart predicted continuous growth for Australia's booming mining industry despite threats from red tape, taxes and labour shortages.
Google has paid out a record $26,511 in bounty to four researchers who found bugs in the Chrome browser.
More travel woes are in store for over 10,000 domestic Qantas passengers with another round of strike scheduled on Friday following the rejection by the Transport Workers Union (TWU) of an offer from Qantas.
Bell FX Currency Outlook:
The Australian dollar continues to trade in a relatively volatile manner, opening this morning around the USD 1.0400 level.
y Greg PeelThe Dow closed up 161 points or 1.4% while the S&P gained 1.1% to 1242 and the Nasdaq managed 0.
Rumors about Apple's secret TV project have been circulating for months but after a few remarks by Jobs to Walter Isaacson in his bio "Steve Jobs", the rumors are steadily growing to become a fact.
Back in October 25, 2001, Windows released its new operating system, Windows XP to lukewarm response from consumers. Despite initial resistance from consumers, Windows XP stands above other PC operating systems as the longest and most popular OS to date.
Is the Eurozone still facing a recession? Should the US economy still be ok? And what about companies in Australia?FNArena's Rudi and Greg will discuss and shine some light on all these issues, plus more under the general theme for today's broadcast of "Investing = Forecasting".
"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Steve Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson. "I'm going to destroy Android because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go to thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death because they know they are guilty."
If valuers “get it wrong” they will often find themselves being sued by Lenders Mortgage Insurance companies who may be out of pocket after selling a property to recover funds lent on a loan that went bad.
Virgin Australia has announced plans for additional capacity over the next two weeks, adding 64 domestic services to meet increased demand.
In recent months, direct lender MyRate Home Loans has seen a number of valuations coming in below borrower expectations, and in some cases, they even come in lower than the purchase price paid only weeks earlier.
The Reserve Bank of Australia is in a position to give the Australian retail sector the Christmas present it’s been asking for, a cash rate cut next week, according to the Australian National Retailers Association (ANRA) . The comments come after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released consumer price index (CPI) for the September quarter, showing a slow in inflation.
Benchmark spot iron-ore prices crashed deeply on Tuesday to its lowest level since July 2010 by a substantial 7.2 per cent fall - the biggest one-day drop in more than 26 months - to $128.50 a tonne. For over six weeks now, iron ore prices have been falling by more than 30 per cent.
Beginning next week some patients in South Australian hospitals will have bedside touch screen computers under a $36.7 million deal between Telstra and the medical institutions.
Intel is working with suppliers and manufacturers to bring down production cost for ultrabooks and make the price of the thin and light notebooks lower than Apple's MacBooks and various tablet PCs.
Australia’s bestselling sedan, the Holden Commodore, will soon meet its fiercest competitor yet by November though the local carmaker surprisingly remains unperturbed by the prospect.
Millions of mobile phone owners pampered for years by numerous Nokia model handsets could soon expect the release of new smartphones from the Finnish firm powered by Microsoft’s mobile platform, reports said.
Vector, the operator of the natural gas pipeline in New Zealand's North Island, reported a rupture on its Maui pipes. The rupture happened at a considerable distance south of New Zealand Steel's Glenbrook and Taharoa operations.
Gold futures hit $1,700 an ounce on Wednesday after reaching almost 3 per cent in the previous session as investors and global markets await results if the eurozone leaders can indeed come up with a credible plan to end the euro zone debt crisis at a summit later in the day
