Woolworths hires finance veteran in shake-up
Woolworths has appointed a new chief financial officer days after the departure of a senior director raised concerns that other executives may leave the troubled retailer.
Rio Tinto wins up to 97 percent rise in iron ore price with Asian customers
Rio Tinto, the world's second-largest iron ore producer, secured price rises with its Asian customers of up to 96.5 percent for its ore this year, the miner said Tuesday. 
Rio Tinto ends Asian steel price talks
Rio Tinto has concluded price negotiations with its Asian customers for the steelmaking commodity.
Newcrest surges on energy supply deal
Newcrest says it has secured sufficient gas supplies to maintain full production at its flagship WA Telfer gold mine.
Telstra fires first shot at Canberra
There are signs the nasty days of brawling between Telstra and the Government may return.
Lend Lease revealed as BBC mystery buyer
Property giant Lend Lease Corp today revealed itself as the mystery buyer that seized a 6% stake in Babcock & Brown Communities (BBC).
Lend Lease stakes out Babcock arm
Property giant Lend Lease has revealed itself as the mystery buyer that seized a six per cent stake in Babcock & Brown Communities Group.
China agrees to pay Rio Tinto nearly...
AFP - China's Baosteel said Tuesday it would nearly double the price it pays mining group Rio Tinto for iron ore, in a deal experts said underscored the Asian giant's lynchpin...
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Telstra and Apple to bring iPhone 3G to Australia on 11 July
MELBOURNE, Australia—30 June 2008—Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, and Apple today announced that the highly anticipated iPhone 3G will be available to Telstra’s over 9 million Australian customers on 11 July. iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking that is twice as fast* as the first generation iPhone, built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs the hundreds of third party applications already built with the recently released iPhone SDK.
Babcock & Brown Financing Deal Stiffs Short-Sellers
The embattled Australian infrastructure investment firm comes to an agreement with creditors to pay higher interest rate in exchange for them dropping review of company's debt covenants.
Babcock quiet on sell-off
Babcock & Brown has refused to confirm whether Goldman Sachs JBWere and Deutsche Bank have been named independent advisers.
Qantas flies around strife
QANTAS's share price fell to its lowest level in almost two years yesterday as a prolonged and bitter pay dispute continued to hurt the airline.
Rio Tinto to hike iron ore price for...
AFP - Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto said Monday that it had agreed a near doubling of the price of its iron ore sales to Chinese steel maker Baosteel.
China's Baosteel agrees to nearly...
China's biggest steel producer, Baosteel Group, agreed to price hikes of up to 96.5 percent with iron ore supplier Rio Tinto, the companies said Monday, amid surging demand for...
EU threat to Rio Tinto takeover
EUROPEAN regulators are this week expected to threaten to stop the proposed
takeover of Rio Tinto by BHP Billiton because of the dominance the pair have
over the world’s...
Santos dodges takeover talk
Santos says it is in the early stages of considering "various strategic initiative", in response to a query from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
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Babcock opens self-help books ahead of takeover
BABCOCK & Brown Communities will look at all possibilities to push its ailing share price closer to its underlying asset value as part of a strategic review.
Fairfax discusses margin call risk
THE Fairfax Media board has discussed the implications of a margin loan over 159 million shares held by the director John B. Fairfax, but yesterday made no announcement to the market on the issue.
Analysts warn of Transurban 'takeover'
Disappointed investors cut almost 15 per cent off the value of Transurban Group after the toll roads operator signalled cuts to its future distribution payouts.
Woolworths insists new chief...
Woolworths' chairman, Richard North, maintained that its retail division can robustly grow its profits yesterday as the group parted company with its chief executive, Trevor...
Transurban to raise almost $1 billion
New Transurban chief executive Chris Lynch has moved quickly to put his stamp on the toll road operator by announcing a capital raising of up to $998 million.
Transurban faces selling pain as it...
The job ahead for infrastructure investment vehicles was laid out by Transurban's new CEO.
Bartolomeu Dos Santos: printmaker and...
Bartolomeu dos Santos was perhaps Portugal's most important 20th-century
printmaker.
Rio Tinto to invest in iron ore studies
Rio Tinto Ltd will spend $A521.96 million on the expansion of its Pilbara operations to increase output to 320 million tonnes per year.
Babcock finds suitors for wind farms
Babcock & Brown's wind power affiliate may get up to $3.2b for assets, which would alleviate concern about the firm's ability to repay debt.
Rio Tinto higher despite fear of...
The pressure on Rio Tinto to scrap big mining projects increased yesterday as
Moody’s, the ratings agency, gave warning that the group’s income next year
would be squeezed...