ECONOMY

Australian researchers were able to identify specific targets for future breast cancer treatments through a sophisticated new protein screening technology to profile basal breast cancer.

Weak new home sales signal a need for steady interest rates, according to Australia's largest residential building organisation.

Queensland is set to earn from increasing demand in sugar. The growing demand is setting higher prices for the commodity in the world market.

The Minerals Council of Australia is taking the cudgels for Cameco Corporation as it declared on Wednesday that the disapprovals voiced out by both the Northern Territory government and the opposition on the planned uranium mine site at the Angela Pamela deposits near Alice Springs were wholly premature.

Food sources and the growing middle class population of China will be a pressing global concern in the future.

The emerging nations are now in the driver's seat of the world economy, according to the chief executive of a major US investment firm at the Forbes CEO conference in Sydney on Tuesday.

Fisher Investments chief executive Ken Fisher described the present world economic conditions as similar to previous downturns.

Treasurer Wayne Swan has rejected an Access Economics prediction that the budget will slip back into deficit after a surplus in 2012/13.

Mud holes along the Sydney – Melbourne rail track are seen as an effect of the recent re-sleeping project of the government-owned Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC).

Chief executives remain positive about the prospects for the Australian economy, despite an inconclusive general election leaving the country in political limbo for days, according to fresh data released today.

Tourism Queensland is setting aside the 'Where Else but Queensland' theme for a new one.

The next decade will be difficult for Australia's poor because the prices of fruits and vegetables are expected to rise.

A mechanical heart invented in Queensland needs to go through animal studies. The lack of funds, however, has put the studies on hold.

Westpac Banking Corporation (ASX:WBC) said business credit growth is set to resume in the next six months as a gradual pick-up in consumer spending flows through to the commercial sector.

The Health Lies in Wealth report shows the poorest of Australians dying three years earlier than the wealthiest.

Two new mobile breast screening units will be accompany health team units during their two year rounds across the state.

The Reserve Bank of Australia's next move will be largely dependent on the Financial Stability Review (FSR) on Thursday.

Australia's largest rabbit farm is up for sale and food packaging company EasyFood is about to buy the shares.

Joint venture partners Hydro Tasmania and Roaring 40s said on Monday that the suggestion made by a Tasmanian senator on the nearing restart of their $450 million wind farm project in the north-eastern part of Tasmania may be a little inaccurate.

Myer Pty becomes the trail blazer in putting an end to the seemingly continues mark downs and discounting in department stores across the country.

As debate continues on whether the country has a housing bubble, fresh data suggests Australians are borrowing heavily to keep pace with the rapid growth in house prices.

New South Wales and Queensland cotton farmers are set to earn big with the expected increase in cotton harvests this winter.

The federal government on Friday released the final budget outcome for the past financial year, which showed a $54.8 billion deficit, or 4.2 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP).

Australia is only two years away from experiencing a surge in refinancing activity, financial experts predict.

A significantly large number of companies are ignoring negative comments posted in either company websites or social networking media sites.

Australian investors may find interest in the poultry business down New Zealand.

The Melbourne Institute Household Saving and Investment Report shows the lowest share of debt free households since the start of the survey in March 2001.

Central bank economists have denied claims that Australia's housing market is in a bubble, although investors are concerned over prices posting a 19 per cent rise this year and more than 160 per cent increase in the past decade.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA), the nation's biggest mortgage lender, has joined an increasing number of banks in revising forecasts for an interest rate hike to October.