DRAFT laws will be introduced to parliament to force businesses and government agencies to disclose privacy breaches. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says there have been some "spectacular" recent examples of data breaches where names and ...
Tags: Draft Law, Privacy Breaches, Parliament
The sharemarket was flat in mixed trading today, with resources companies down on the back of concern about China's economy, and banks and telecommunications mostly up on account of their high dividend yields. Citi upgraded its year-end ...
The sharemarket broke a five-day losing streak, as Japan's sharemarket stabilised and S&P500 futures pointed to modest gains on Wall Street. Resources stocks remained jittery after recent signs of weakness in China, while banks and ...
Tags: Stocks, sharemarket
The sharemarket completed its biggest weekly drop in a year as a cocktail of global and domestic concerns drove the nation's benchmark index down all but once in the past five days. The S&P/ASX 200 index slumped 3.8 per cent this week as ...
Australian shares have suffered another sharp fall, losing $26 billion more in value to close down 3.8 per cent for the week, the biggest weekly fall in a year. At 4.15pm AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 78.9 points, or 1.56 ...
The S&P/ASX200 has closed down 2 per cent at 5062.4, as slower Chinese manufacturing activity in May combined with signs that the US Federal Reserve could start rolling back its bond-buying program to send the local sharemarket to its ...
RATTLED investors are on high alert after the stockmarket suffered its worst week in a year and the Australian dollar slid to a 12-month low on fresh concerns about the slowing pace of global economic growth. Capping a wild week for ...
Tags: Sharemarket, Horror Week, Alert
The sharemarket suffered its sharpest one-day fall for two months yesterday after the US Federal Reserve said it could reduce its economic stimulus measures and China's manufacturing showed signs of contraction. "In the next few meetings ...
The sharemarket pulled back yesterday as profit warnings in the mining services and consumer discretionary sectors continued to drag on sentiment. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 0.6 per cent at 5180.1 points after falling to ...
Tags: Stocks, Mining Services Companies, Profit
The sharemarket rose for a third-consecutive session after the dollar weakened further overnight. Non-resources companies with US dollar income remained in demand, although commodity price falls restrained the resources sector. The ...
Tags: Stocks, Aussie Fall
The sharemarket rose for a third consecutive session yesterday after the Australian dollar weakened further in offshore trade. Non-resources companies with US-dollar income remained in demand, although commodity price falls restrained the ...
Tags: Bourse, Greenback Exposure
The axing of Stephen Conroy's other pet project, the controversial mandatory internet filtering scheme, will save the government more than $4 million. According to Budget 2013 papers, the government will achieve savings of $4.5m over ...
CISCO and Telstra could be big winners with the expanded footprint of the government's national telepresence system. More than $19 million will be set aside over five years to establish more telepresence sites that will enable officials ...
Tags: Telepresence, Computer Products
Huwei deserves points for courage, for dipping its toes into the dangerous waters of the phablet computer market, for that is where devices are bigger than most smartphones and smaller than most tablets, and consumers are confused and ...
Local shares rose slightly in mixed trading yesterday as a lower Australian dollar led investors to sell banks and other high-yield plays in order to buy shares of companies that stand to benefit from a sustained fall in the exchange rate. ...