Resource giant Rio Tinto Ltd (ASX:RIO) announced on Monday it is midway through a share buyback program designed to simplify its dual-listed structure.
Willmott Forests has been placed in receivership by its bankers, emulating the downward spiral of collapsed managed investment scheme (MIS) operators Timbercorp and Great Southern.
Miners are threatening to restart anti-tax campaign, potentially bringing back the controversy over the government's resource levy.
The biotechnology company is floating $8.5 million today after submitting a prospectus with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. The investment proposal covers the clinical development of a new prostate cancer therapy and a second therapy to improve the longevity of hip replacements.
Closing down the whaling industry is possible when the tourism industry will compensate for the losses.
Australia's largest supermarket chain Woolworths Ltd (ASX:WOW) plans to offload $900 million of its retail sites from its property portfolio.
Aevum Limited (ASX: AVE) chairman Graham Lenzer intensifies a campaign call to reject the Stockland Corporation Limited (ASX: SGP) offer of $1.50 a share.
Google has confirmed reports that the Texas Attorney General is investigating the company in connection with an anti-trust lawsuit by two firms claiming it manipulated search results to harm the complainants.
Suncorp-Metway Limited (ASX: SUN) and Insurance Australia Group Limited (ASX: IAG), two of New Zealand's largest insurance companies, are prepared for the expected property damage claims caused by Saturday's earthquake.
The Federal Department of Environment, Water, Environment, and the Arts has given the nod for the construction of the biggest coal gasification and storage plant in the world.
Heemskirk Consolidated Ltd (ASX: HSK) has announced on Friday that it is set to opt out from its takeover proposal for North Queensland Metals Ltd (ASX: NQM) and would simply allow its standing offer to expire on September 10.
A market and social research group found a significant number of Australians becoming more carbon-efficient.
Sigma Pharmaceuticals Ltd (ASX:SIP) says it has been advised of a shareholder class action lawsuit over its alleged failure to disclose its financial position before a capital raising in September 2009.
After the launch of the controversial PS Jailbreak that allows users to copy PlayStation 3 games, a second hack on the console has been released that is free and claims to violate no laws on software piracy
Fortescue Metals Group (ASX: FMG) today denied claims it breached a funding agreement with a New York hedge fund that owns 8 per cent of the iron ore miner.
The National Broadband Network (NBN) primary player Telstra Corporation Limited (ASX: TLS) disclosed plans of selling its shares in SouFun Holdings
Fortescue Metals Group (ASX: FMG) and its chief executive Andrew Forrest are being sued by top US investor Leucadia National (NYSE:LUK) for alleged "misleading and deceptive conduct".
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited (ASX: BEN) senior executives are attending a global investor roadshow set for Monday in New York.
Australia's aborigines cry 'Noonkanbah' when the West Australian government started acquiring land for Woodside Petroleum Limited's (ASX: WPL) $30 billion gas project.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) wants credit providers to transact business according to the new 11 regulatory guides.
Fast-food chain Burger King is to be sold to investment firm 3G Capital for $US3.26 billion in a deal analysts said would give the restaurant breathing room to fix its business.
As the Western Australian government started the process of compulsory land acquisition in the Kimberley region, north of WA, Woodside Petroleum Ltd declared on Thursday that the $1.25 billion work program for its Browse liquefied natural gas (LNG) development project will push through and completion should be expected by mid-part of 2012.
Energy firm Mosaic Oil NL said on Thursday that PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities Ltd (PWC) had concluded that the acquisition proposal pushed forward by AGL Energy Ltd was wholly advantageous to the interests of the target shareholders.
Rio Tinto Ltd’s expansion campaign in the Pilbara region is further boosted as the mining giant formally unveiled the operation of its $US1.5 billion Brockman 4 iron ore mine site in Western Australia.
Australia-based beverage company Foster's Group Limited (ASX:FGL) today announced that Chief Financial Officer Angus McKay has submitted his resignation to join ports and rail operator Asciano Group (ASX:AIO) .
According to a lawyer who defended a case against Nintendo, the lawsuit that Sony filed against manufacturers of mod chips for the Playstation 3 may be the first of many that game console makers will file in Australia.
A balance of genders is spreading out in Australian companies as women make 10 percent of board members.
The prices of milk and dairy products reached close to 17 percent overnight at Fonterra's online auction. All contracts, across all product lines, have an average selling price of US3562 a tonne.
Even after four years after the downfall of his financial services company, MFS, Michael King continues to fight in court.
“There should be consolidation among the regional banks.”
