is now on! You'll also note that the site has been completely rebranded, a Herculean task I managed to pull off in THREE DAYS this week. (I'm stunned myself.) Please let me know what you think!
US stocks ended little changed on Friday as a sharp drop in oil prices and signs of resiliency in the labour market, offset concerns that tighter credit is hurting consumer spending. Co.
BHP Billiton and Anglo American, two of the world's top miners, said today they planned to invest nearly $US1 billion ($1.14 billion) in two separate South African coal projects.
THE biggest sale of state-owned assets since Victoria invited the private sector to bid for its electricity industry in the early 1990s is likely to take place next year as NSW prepares to lease out its power stations and sell
AUSTRALIAN shareholders are more cautious about the stock market but still see quality shares as a good long-term investment, according to the latest research done for the The Australian by Crosby Textor.
A GROUP of nine telecommunications companies led by Optus will offer high-speed broadband at half the prices proposed by Telstra - if it wins a $4.7 billion tender with the Rudd Government.
BRISBANE'S house prices continue to hit record highs, with nearly half of its suburbs boasting million-dollar homes as the city catches up to the expense of Sydney.
THE uni student facing up to 18 months in a US jail for allegedly throwing a snowball at a former co-worker shared a mutual dislike for each other, a court has heard.
A JURY has found a volunteer firefighter guilty of deliberately lighting one fire in the Perth hills, but acquitted him on charges of lighting six others, according to his defence team.
BESIEGED Premier Morris Iemma has demanded a showdown with his mutinous caucus MPs on Monday, with plans to force a vote on the $15 billion privatisation of the state's power industry.
A RESPECTED pilot with more than 50 years' experience was killed when his aircraft crashed into Lake Liddell in NSW's Hunter Valley during a water-bombing exercise.
MALCOLM Turnbull raised concerns about last week's Opposition leadership ballot because a number of MPs who faced losing their seats were allowed to vote.
