Metals giant urges tariffs
AUSTRALIA'S biggest steel maker yesterday blasted the Government's free trade policies as "naive", blaming aggressive tariffs cuts in the last 15 years for threatening the viability of Australia's declining manufacturing sector.
Bourse tumbles 2pc on rates fears, Mid-East turmoil
PANICKED investors pushed the share market to its worst fall this month as geo-political turmoil, fears of an August interest rate rise and earnings uncertainty combined to ruin the recovery from the recent fall of nearly 10 per cent on the bourse.
Reforms left behind as media gets speedier
SYDNEY schoolgirl Samantha Woodhill is 17. She communicates with her friends using mobile text messages and Microsoft's internet-based instant messenger, she spends money earned from a part-time job on iTunes music tracks and watches little television.
Foster's veteran calls last drinks
FOSTER'S lost one of its top three executives as the company unveiled a new, regional business model yesterday amid suggestions of teething problems with its multi-beverage strategy.
Halt continues as copper concerns broaden
WAYNE McCrae's troubles with the Australian Stock Exchange may be more serious than first thought, and shares in his company won't be traded again until early next week at the earliest.
New life for Rum Jungle
ONE of Australia's historic uranium mines, Rum Jungle in the Northern Territory, could be back in action within two years.
Harvey shares take a tumble
SHARES of Harvey Norman Holdings, Australia's largest furniture and electronics retailer, had their biggest fall in more than three years yesterday after fourth-quarter sales growth slowed.
New brass for ASX boss
INCOMING Australian Stock Exchange boss Robert Elstone will see his base take-home pay swell by one-third when he takes the reins of the powerful monopoly on July 25.
Conflict spooks bourse
THE deepening crisis in the Middle East and soaring oil prices spooked investors in the Australian stock market, which closed sharply lower yesterday.
AuSelect bids for explorer
LISTED mining investment fund stablemates Lion Selection Group and AuSelect are going to shed their lookalike status, with AuSelect dipping its toe directly into the mining waters.
Trade gap and metals prices weaken dollar
THE Australian dollar ended more than half a US cent weaker yesterday, hurt by falls in base metals prices and a doubling in the nation's trade deficit.
Brambles spin-offs lure fast financing
UBS and Credit Suisse are already midway through a $1.65 billion financing for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co's $1.83 billion purchase of the Brambles Cleanaway and Industrial Services businesses.
Have we unbalanced our own trade?
China to allow in foreign oil firms
Multiplex signs up ATO for World Square
IT glitch behind drug maker's ASX suspension
AGL's hand-picked infrastructure chief resigns
Coonan keeps the FTA cartel in clover
Free TV will just sit on its digits
Rainmaker drowns Mac's bid for PCCW assets
Gas in the West lights the future
Santos downgrades Jeruk oil discovery
BoJ ends zero interest rate policy
Grumpy nation bids farewell dormant rate
Reserve Bank wants a cooler economy but not cool enough for recession
Yukos moves to stop Rosneft float
Reserve Bank wants a cooler economy but not cool enough for recession
EMI puts best spin on court decision
Arsenal bonds help pay for stadium
Bryan Frith
Watchdog may baulk at Tabcorp's bid for Unitab
WHILE the main focus in the contest for Unitab is whether Tattersall's will top Tabcorp's takeover bid, it's possible the competition watchdog, the ACCC, may play a role in the outcome.
D'Aloisio discovers downside of schemes of arrangement
Tabcorp has the right to question Unitab's expert
More drilling needed to get the bucks from Crux
Memo ASX: clarification has to be name of the game
Michael West
Sceptics dig in over copper whopper
THUMBING through the pages of the business press, a reader could be forgiven for thinking the corporate world was not swarming with thespians, cufflinked swindlers and main-chancers.
Dirty big dud or $40bn bonanza?
Shock and ore: test your metal as the brass floods in
NRMA has no auto immunity to boring leaks
It was the lease they could do for Arnie
Matthew Stevens
New order makes four add up to 12 for favoured free-to-airs and ABC
WHILE matchmakers start working on the arranged media marriages made possible by Helen Coonan's reform package, it is worth pondering just why this free-market Government seems so set on defending the interests of Australia's commercial television networks.
Oil men slip up crudely on prices
Wise old owls circle Cloncurry
Noble prize: suitor prices Twiggy's mining dream at $4bn
Perils of reading smoke signals
Michael Sainsbury
Telstra's the Sol of miscalculation
HELEN Coonan this week confounded her critics by pushing wide-ranging reforms to Australia's media landscape through federal Cabinet.
Sol seems in need of some political savvy
Not much Future for Telstra shares in fund
Holding the line
Mammoth problem of cash flow for Telstra
Challenger Infrastructure Fund (CIFCA)