Over the past two weeks, glass manufacturing workers at CSR Viridian’s plants in Sydney and Melbourne have spoken to World S ocialist W eb S ite correspondents about the closure and merger of facilities that will cost more than 200 ...
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More subscribers, networks with better coverage and devices that can be used in more countries are converging to make LTE roaming a more viable proposition, with some operators already offering such services on a limited scale and more on ...
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It's been eons in coming, but pre-ordered BlackBerry Z10's will start being delivered in Australian from Monday. More than four years has elapsed since BlackBerry brought out its first touchscreen model, the Storm, in late 2008. It also ...
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South Korean manufacturer LG this morning finally released its premium Optimus G smartphone onto the Australian market making it available through Telstra from today. At a launch held at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, LG ...
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The sharemarket fell yesterday as banks came under pressure when data showed home-loan approvals fell, and a strategy update from National Australia Bank failed to impress investors. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 0.5 per cent at ...
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The sharemarket reversed an early rise as mining companies declined on uncertainty about China's growth outlook and Goldman Sachs downgraded the resources sector to from overweight to neutral. High-yield and defensive sectors initially ...
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The sharemarket reversed an early rise as resources companies declined on uncertainty about China's growth outlook and Goldman Sachs downgraded the resources sector from overweight to neutral. High-yield and defensive sectors initially ...
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 0.2 per cent at 5109.2 after hitting a 4 1/2-year high of 5135.7 in early trading. Share trading value worth $5.2 billion slipped just below the 20-day moving average of $5.3bn. Asian markets were ...
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The stockmarket traded marginally lower as disappointing trade figures pulled shares back from a modestly positive start. IG Markets market strategist Stan Shamu said the Australian market had opened slightly higher, but had descended ...
The Australian sharemarket has finished lower, despite some resilience in the resources and materials sector. Options XPress market analyst Ben Le Brun said the local market had bounced back in afternoon trade as investors looked ahead ...
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The sharemarket rose yesterday as defensive and high-yield stocks had broad-based gains after stronger-than-expected German business confidence data brightened the eurozone economic outlook and US earnings reports beat expectations. The ...
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Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg took centre stage as Mobile World Congress got underway this morning by serving the tradition of giving his telecoms predictions for the year ahead. Vestberg also presented a full picture of new products, ...
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The sharemarket recovered as investors piled into high-yield stocks after Thursday's steep decline, which followed the release of US Federal Reserve minutes showing growing concern among Fed members about potential side-effects of its ...
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The sharemarket partially reversed its big sell-off with a solid finish after the Reserve Bank's positive comments about the economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed up 38 points, or 0.76 per cent, at 5018.1 points today, while the ...
Former Telstra managing director Ted Pretty says parts of the National Broadband Network should be "reconsidered", as the company building the network seeks a review of broadband technologies used in the rollout. Mr Pretty, who oversaw ...
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