BUSINESS

- ANZ suggests commodities are oversold- Barclays revises its sector order of preference- Issues in oil and steel markets- Price stability needed for palladium's fundamentals to dominateBy Chris ShawHaving reviewed September quarter performance and market conditions ANZ Banking Group's Oct...

Retail establishments in Australia are passing on to shoppers the cost of goods stolen worth about $2 billion yearly. A study on retail crime places the amount at an average of $284 a year hidden as "honesty taxes," the Herald Sun reports.

Smartphone dealers in Hong Kong bought iPhone 4S from Australia and Japan and sold them to locals for up to six times the original price.

Mortgage Choice, one of Australia's largest independently owned mortgage brokers, on Monday revealed approaches to property investment that help borrowers maximise their cash flow and build wealth.

By Greg PeelThis weekly report noted last week the US Energy Commission had for sale an inventory of UF6 which it is offering below current spot pricing.

The high cost of living is putting more low-income Aussies at risk of falling into poverty, a report says. Poorer households are compelled to spend more of their income on essential goods and services due to price hikes on these non-discretionary items, such as food and electricity, a report by St Vincent de Paul Society says. As a result, households' health and education expenses are delayed, if attended at all.

The Russian housing market hasn't recovered - despite appearances. Resale apartment prices rose 3.79% during the year to end-Q2 2011, according to the Federal State Statistics Service, but the kicker was inflation - resale apartment prices actually fell 5.25% when the price figures are adjusted for inflation.

By Greg PeelThe Dow fell 246 points or 2.1% while the S&P dropped 1.9% to 1200 and the Nasdaq lost 2.0%.

Although jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad carries the risk of bricking your device and voiding your Apple warranty there are some benefits to jailbreaking your iPhone 4s or iPad 2. Here are the five reasons why you should jailbreak your iPhone or iPad.

A new study has suggested Australia is a three-spend economy, which it says is as significant as the two-speed economy that the nation has heard so much about.

New research confirms a mixed outlook for Australia’s retail sector, but the good news is almost half of consumers say they are maintaining or increasing their spending, and young consumers remain up-beat.

If you're one of the lucky ones who were able to snag a new iPhone 4S or upgraded your existing Apple device to iOS 5, then you're probably wondering how fast you can fill up all those gigabytes of memory with apps. The Apple App Store has half a million apps available, so narrowing it down to what you really need can be a forbidding task.

Virgin Australia has begun services between Brisbane and Gladstone for the first time in Monday with new ATR turbo‐prop aircraft.

More than half of Australian mid-market companies are not properly prepared for persistent fluctuations in business conditions, according to the inaugural Commonwealth Bank Future Business Index.

Qantas long-haul pilots on Monday morning called for Qantas management to urgently reconsider their withdrawal from negotiations before Fair Work Australia.

Australia's housing market continues to weaken in the first half of 2011, following the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)'s action in hiking the key interest rate to 4.75% in November 2010, up from 3% in September 2009. RBA has kept the key rate unchanged since then.

The local share market has started the trading week on a strong note, with investor sentiment boosted by a raft of positive offshore news. Over the weekend, European leaders again pledged to take all necessary action to stave of the debt crisis, and work together ahead of the G20 summit in Cannes next month. Meanwhile US stocks posted their best weekly gains since March 2009 last week, boosted by strong retail sales and impressive earnings results from a number of companies, particularly Google....

Queensland Mining Corporation announced it recently discovered a new high grade copper discovery on Horseshoe ML and Duck Creek EPM. It was the first recorded discovery of high grade sulphides in the area, at its Duck Creek Project, south of Cloncurry.

India's housing markets surged in Q2 2011. There were amazingly strong house price increases, despite an economic slowdown which saw gross domestic product grow by 'only' 7.7% during the year to Q2 2011, the weakest growth for six quarters, due to high interest rates and the poor performance of mining and quarrying (1.8% annual growth), construction (1.2%) and the manufacturing sectors (7.2%).

Bob Parsons, the CEO of internet domain name registrar GoDaddy, which sponsored the IndyCar Challenge that cost Dan Wheldon his life, had spoken in relation to the tragedy. Wheldon, 33, died following a horrifying accident on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The accident occurred during the lap 11 of the race, when his car flew mid-air and burst into flames after a 15-car pileup. He was immediately airlifted to a local hospital but was unable to survive due to "serious injuries." Three ...

The weekend conclusion of talks among Group of 20 finance chiefs, where it approved parts of a plan to contain the eurozone's debt crisis and prevent a possible Greek default, has led commodities futures, particularly copper and oil, to rise on Monday.

Apple hit Samsung with a one-two punch this weekend as U.S and Dutch courts ruled against Samsung in its continuing legal battle with the iPhone manufacturer.

The key in property investment is to know where in the cycle you are buying so you can judge whether you're getting a good price and whether prices have further to fall.

Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett may have temporarily banned Samsung Electronics from launching its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, but Aussies have found a way to go around the ban. They ordered the gadget online.

Speculations are brewing in the iron ore mining and steel mills industries that China has been offered to purchase the iron ore raw material for fourth-quarter contracts at a much cheaper rate.

The Australian sharemarket has kicked off the new trading week on a positive note, with the All Ordinaries index (XAO) up 1.4 pct or 59.1 pts to 4328.1. All regions of the market are improving with gains of at least 1 pct flowing through to most sectors.

Growing debt problems and threats of possible recession have prompted European finance managers to come up with a scheme that could finally resolve the problems of Greece and enhance the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).

News of Rio Tinto's sale of 13 aluminium assets boosted the company's stocks by 2.74 per cent on Monday. With the increase, Rio Tinto's shares rose to $70.16 which is a month high.

Over a thousand birds had been found dead since MV Rena's reef crash resulting in oil spill almost two weeks ago, as operations in oil removal have been stopped because media vessels are getting too close to the ship.