The Australian financial services sector could be a major beneficiary if the Labor government is able to finalise the long-awaited free trade agreement with China. Analysts in Beijing believe China would be willing to allow Australian ...
China Specialty Glass AG ("CSG"), holding company of one of the largest producers of security glass in China, looks back on another successful financial year 2012 with high growth in revenues and earnings. -Revenue growth by 47.9 per ...
Tags: Specialty Glass, Strong Growth
The Australian share market has again nudged above the 5,000 point mark but fell away in afternoon trade to end only slightly higher. Financial and energy stocks were the best performers, with other sectors mixed. Energy giant Woodside ...
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ENCOURAGING signs for the housing sector have driven a rise in banking shares, which pushed the market to a fifth straight day of gains. The release of China's latest economic growth figure of 7.5 per cent - in line with expectations - ...
Tags: housing sector, economy
Seadrill Limited ("Seadrill" or "the Company") has entered into turnkey contracts to build four new ultra-deepwater drillships. Two drillships will be built at the DSME yard and the other two at the Samsung yard, in South Korea. The project ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
The Visa credit card outfit has certainly got the retail scene abuzz with news it will launch a "digital wallet" in Australia by Christmas. The e-wallet, dubbed V.me, will henceforth store all your cards in digital form, probably on your ...
ROSS Barker, the managing director of several listed investment companies, is not betting on the yield trade to drive markets as hard in the next 12 months, saying some big dividend-paying stocks got "very toppy" before the recent sell-off. ...
Tags: economy
DHL Express is celebrating its first year as the official logistics partner of charities Free The Children and Me to We. By providing the charities with free shipping, storage and logistics support, DHL has allowed them to allocate 90% of ...
Tags: DHL, Transportation
The 2012 financial results of China Specialty Glass AG ("CSG"), holding company of one of the largest producers of security glass in China, are impacted by a negative one-off effect of 12.5 million Euros. This one-off effect resulted ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
On July 8, OSRAM Licht AG started trading with ticker symbol "OSR" on the Frankfurt and Munich stock exchange. Wolfgang Dehen, CEO of Osram, said that the listing marks the beginning of a new chapter in Osram's history of more than 100 ...
The Chinese government has been busy probing Western firms this week. On Monday, the country announced it would investigate EU wine dumping into the Chinese market, an action that could see prices hiked on imported wine this year. On ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
A total of 95 Chinese companies have made it onto the list of Fortune 500 companies compiled by Fortune magazine, with combined gross revenue of $5.2 trillion, or 17 percent of the Fortune 500's total revenue. The list, ranked by ...
Tags: Fortune, Chinese Companies
The money-market squeeze that rocked Chinese banks last month may reduce credit growth this year by as much as US$122 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing a survey conducted by the news service. The figure represents the median estimate of ...
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OSRAM Licht AG today started trading on the Frankfurt and Munich stock exchange under the ticker symbol “OSR”. “Today’s listing marks the beginning of a new chapter in the company’s more than 100-year history ...
The UK’s Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) has collaborated with British Glass and the European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA) to launch a new recycling communications initiative for local authorities. Aimed ...