East Timor Renews Claim on Lucrative Oil and Gas Pipeline
October 31, 2008
Experts think the field, which lies in waters claimed by both East Timor and Australia, could be worth $90 billion
BHP Billiton abandons bid for Rio Tinto
BHP Billiton Ltd., the world's biggest mining company, abandoned a hostile $68 billion takeover bid for rival Rio Tinto Ltd., blaming the global economic downturn and plunging commodity prices.
Rio Tinto says it is comfortable with debt level
Mining giant Rio Tinto on Wednesday sought to allay concerns about its debt levels a day after bigger rival BHP Billiton abandoned a takeover bid for that reason, sending Rio's share price plummeting. 
ASX marginally in the red
The ASX was marginally in the red at noon, with gold stocks heavily sold off for the second consecutive day on the back of a falling gold price.
ASX high at noon as Wall St soars
The Australian stock market was up at noon as News Corporation Ltd reported robust fourth-quarter and full-year results.
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Woolworths dives as it confirms...
Woolworths this morning confirmed a report in The Times that it is in
talks to sell its retail business.
Woolworths in talks to sell retail...
Woolworths is in talks to sell its entire high street business to Hilco, the
specialist distressed fund, for £1.
Woodside shareholders hassled
Woodside Petroleum has warned investors to be vigilant against dodgy share purchasers.
Woodside warns against Hassle bid
Investors need to be vigilant against a dodgy share purchasers, says Woodside Petroleum Ltd.
No gas for Pluto 2 project as Woodside well turns up dry
WOODSIDE Petroleum will have to continue its search for gas to feed a proposed second production train at its $12 billion Pluto liquefied natural gas project after a potential feeder well turned up dry.
ASX lower led by financials, resources
The Australian share market closed more than two per cent lower, dragged down by the resource and financial sectors and a weak lead from Wall Street overnight.
Woolworths in talks over £1 offer...
Woolworths’ biggest shareholder was locked in meetings with advisers last night over how best to fight Hilco’s £1 offer for the company’s retail arm.
Woolworths in crisis rescue talks
THE management of Woolworths was locked in crisis talks this weekend about
securing a revised rescue deal to save the group from imminent collapse into
administration.
Woolworths investor touts alternative...
Woolworths’ largest shareholder, Ardeshir Naghshineh, is in talks with the
retailer’s banks about an alternative plan to a sale the company’s retail
arm to Hilco for...
Woolworths' main shareholder in bank...
Ardeshir Naghshineh, Woolworths' largest shareholder, is in last-ditch talks
with the retailer's banks about an alternative to a sale of the high street
chain's retail arm to...
Woolworths stands on brink as wage...
Woolworths is at risk of going into administration as soon as this morning as
it scrabbles to find sufficient funds to pay its monthly wage bill.
Woolworths stores to close after...
Woolworths went into administration last night, putting thousands of high
street jobs at risk despite last-ditch government efforts to save it.
Babcock & Brown shares dive on fee flow fears
Babcock & Brown, the worst- performing stock on the MSCI Asia-Pacific Index, fell on concerns that credit market turmoil may cut proceeds from asset sales to reduce debt.
WorleyParsons' billion-dollar solar plan
WorleyParsons is studying the construction of the world's biggest project producing power from the sun's heat, tapping incentives for renewable energy generation.
Potential buyers emerge to save...
The new management of Woolworths today revealed it has already received
several expressions of interests from parties about buying parts of the
business which collapsed last...
Bidders sought as beleaguered...
The starting pistol was fired yesterday for the sale of Woolworths and MFI as
the court-appointed managers sought buyers for the beleaguered stores.
Film distributor is victim of...
The fallout from the collapse of Woolworths spread this morning as Metrodome,
a UK-listed film and television distributor, warned it risked losing
£320,000 it was owed by the...
Orica to demerge consumer products
Orica Ltd plans to demerge its consumer products business into a separate company and raise up to $900 million through an entitlement offer.
BBC in talks with Woolworths as...
The entire Woolworths empire, including its stake in 2Entertain, the BBC joint
venture, is likely to be in administration by the end of the week, with its
10,000 pensioners at...
CEO of Australia's Fairfax Media resigns
The chief executive of Fairfax Media, publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald, quit Friday after three years at the helm of a company that has lost advertising dollars to the...