Telstra's rivals have made an 11th-hour plea to the competition regulator to halt the telco giant's proposed acquisition of budget broadband provider Adam Internet. Senior executives from iiNet, Vodafone and Macquarie Telecom yesterday ...
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BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia says that it has succeeded in its initial laboratory experiments in developing p-type gallium nitride (p-GaN) material (essential for making up the top layers of a nitride LED). Spun off from the ...
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Business Line reported that Lanco Infratech Ltd is close to selling stake in its holding company and in the special purpose vehicles,while some of its strategic investors Genting and Doosan may exit. The diversified infrastructure ...
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LOCAL shares closed higher today as US President Barack Obama cut short his Christmas holiday to return to Washington for talks aimed at resolving the so-called fiscal cliff. Investors in Australia's sharemarket remained optimistic that ...
Google today launched a version of its Chrome browser for iOS, the Apple mobile operating system that powers the iPhone and iPad. The company confirmed that the browser is essentially Safari in disguise, as Chrome relies on Apple's ...
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THE sharemarket continued its climb yesterday, reaching a 17-month high on positive news from Europe as US politicians inched closer to a deal on the fiscal cliff crisis. Utilities, energy, industrials, telecommunications, materials and ...
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Atlantic Coast ULSD stocks were at 20.109 million barrels,up 2.7 million barrels,in the reporting week ended December 14,the Energy Information Administration said Wednesday.This was the highest rise in inventories on a weekly basis since ...
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THE Australian sharemarket hit a fresh 17-month high today as US lawmakers inched closer to a deal on the fiscal cliff problem. Utilities, energy, industrials, telecommunications, materials and financial stocks mostly rose despite some ...
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OZFOREX, the online foreign-exchange services specialist backed by Macquarie Group and two of the world's most powerful venture capital and private equity investors, is planning to double the size of its business over the next four years, ...
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STOCKBROKER Wilson HTM has further replenished its adviser ranks and streamlined its operations through a deal with fellow listed broker Investorfirst,capping a year of consolidation as firms try to offset weak deal flow and market volumes. ...
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The sharemarket fell slightly in quiet trading yesterday as global equity markets awaited the outcome of negotiations to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff that threatens to slow the US economy next year unless politicians reach agreement on ...
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With approval from the Canadian government granted on Friday, China National Offshore Oil Corp. has crossed the biggest hurdle to its $15.1 billion takeover bid for Nexen and the deal should close by the end of the year, analysts said in ...
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According to the World Bureau of Metal Statistics' most recent report, the market surplus for primary aluminum between January and September 2012 was 488,000 tonnes which follows a surplus of 1,871,000 tonnes recorded for the whole of 2011. ...
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Reuters reported that London copper rallied to its highest in six weeks as promising manufacturing data from top consumer China fuelled a cautious return in investors' appetite for the metal although worries over US fiscal woes kept a lid ...
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Reuters reported that London copper was steady and was set to close the week little changed as traders focused on the progress in US talks to avert a looming fiscal crisis while also waiting for a crucial jobs report from the world's ...
Tags: copper, China's industrial production figures, copper contract