The Australian dollar is sharply lower as news of a Greek referendum to decide whether to accept a second Eurozone bailout package sent jitters through markets.
Collapsed US broker MF Global may have used client money on its own behalf as it fought to beat losses on European debt, markets operator CME Group said Tuesday.
Master Builders Australia says a replacement agency with fewer powers than the Australian Building and Construction Commission would give the green light to building unions to engage in unlawful st
The forestry assets of failed rural land owner The ARK Fund have been sold for $46 million in a deal struck by receivers from McGrathNicol with an international timber investment group.
A joint venture led by US-owned construction contractor Kiewit Australia, which is a new player in the local mining sector, has won a $247 million contract from Fortescue Metals Group for works on
The fate of Brockman Resources' Marillana iron ore development in the Pilbara is up in the air, after major shareholder Wah Nam International commissioned a review of the Perth-based junior's opera
Qantas Airways' bookings should improve in the period ahead as the end of work stoppages brings greater certainty to the Flying Kangaroos' schedule, analysts say.
Cedar Woods says it is on track to lodge a record profit of more than $34 million this financial year, with $140 million in pre-sales underpinning its growth in trying market conditions.
Australian stocks fell 1.5 per cent, as weakness among the nation's major miners dragged the broader market lower on weaker Chinese manufacturing data and concerns about Europe.
BHP Billiton has approved the development of the $US4.2 billion ($A4 billion) Caval Ridge Mine coal project in the northern Bowen Basin in central Queensland.
Tough new abalone laws have been introduced to Western Australia this season, giving recreational fishermen just one hour on the first Sunday of each month to collect the valuable shellfish.
Tension is mounting surrounding the federal government's minerals resource rent tax legislation, with key independent MPs demanding stricter rules for coal seam gas and the Greens insisting gold mi
Campbell Brothers has bought US-based environmental and food analytical group, Columbia Analytical Services (CAS), for $US33 million ($31 million), as the company seeks to expand in the United Stat
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she wants developing nations to invest in clean energy, as she heads to the G20 leaders' summit on France's south coast.
Australians like to think that their country is in better shape than deeply indebted Europe, but if you analyse the Qantas dispute you discover an identical set of circumstances with time the only
Perth-based miner Kagara has begun talks with potential buyers of its nickel assets after its mining partner Western Areas indicated it was not interested in a purchase.
US stocks plunged Monday amid renewed worries about the eurozone debt crisis, which claimed its first major US casualty -- a key brokerage that filed for bankruptcy.
Anvil Mining shares slipped today after the company said its $C1.3 billion ($1.2 billion) takeover offer from MinMetals Resources may be in danger of falling over.
Gold miner Kingsgate Consolidated has announced a $3.75 per share off-market takeover offer for the minority interest in Laguna Resources it does not already own.
Renewable energy players Green Rock Energy and New World Energy have signed a binding joint venture agreement to explore and develop the two companies' geothermal exploration permits in the Mid Wes
