THE dollar received a fillip yesterday after a top Reserve Bank official said financial markets had misinterpreted comments by governor Glenn Stevens that seemed to indicate another rate cut was imminent. Philip Lowe, deputy governor of ...
Tags: economy, market, financial market
Sydney-based underwriter QBE Australia is to divest its National Credit Insurance Brokers (NCIB) business and professional indemnity authorized representative Invivo by the end of 2013. Following completion of listing process, the ...
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Australia-based dairy food exporter Devondale (Murray Goulburn Co-operative) is set to establish a milk processing facility at Erskine Park in Sydney, with an investment of a A$60m ($54.5m). Devondale had purchased a five-hectare plot ...
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Integrated brand design agency bluemarlin has created mouth-watering packaging for Nestlé's innovative new MAGGI Just for 2 range: delicious recipe bases specifically formulated for two-people. The Just for 2 product range goes on ...
Solar Systems Pty Ltd of Melbourne, Australia, has achieved 'practical completion' of Australia's largest concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar power plant. Forty CPV 'Dense Array' dish systems are now fully commissioned and feeding clean ...
Tags: Silex CPV, solar, Electrical, Electronics
The biannual Smart Conference and Expo has come to a close for another time, and delivered a strong and improved conference program. With both the number of presentations and visitors up on the previous conference, it offered something for ...
THEY?RE highly successful as consumer devices, but is Apple?s iPad cutting the mustard in the business world? Yesterday two restaurants in inner Sydney were spruiking the benefits of using Apple's iPad to manage everything from the taking ...
DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight arm of Deutsche Post DHL, has opened the doors of its new $61.6 million facility. The building combines DHL Global Forwarding's two existing Sydney sites into a new, 19,619m2 custom-built ...
Leaders from Coca Cola, Coles, Telstra, GraysOnline, Walgreens and the National Broadband Network will come together in Sydney on Wednesday for Australia's leading supply chain and logistics event, the Smart Conference & Expo. Smart 2013 ...
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Hume Highway – Yass Bridge, built 1876. After half a century of continuous construction and the investment of billions of dollars, a fully duplicated Hume Highway is at last a reality. The final stage in the upgrade of the Hume ...
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Australia’s Sydney Harbour Bridge has been lit with more than one hundred thousand LEDs which are controlled by the public. The Sydney-based lighting designer 32 Hundred Lighting created the installation onto the famous ...
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The Australian dollar continued to fall today, sparking the biggest one-day sell-off in government bonds since the turmoil in global markets that followed the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers in late 2008. Bond traders said ...
Concerns about the global economy and political unrest in Canberra are cruelling appetite for takeovers, with some of the nation's top dealmakers tipping companies to remain on the sidelines until economic clouds clear. In a sign of the ...
Sydney-based Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA) saw three village banks run into operation in Hebei Province, China recently. The three institutions spread in Xinji City and Handan City, each, with small- and medium-sized ...
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has commended the NSW Government for delivering one of the most comprehensive state budgets for the rail industry this nation has seen. While no new projects have been announced, the budget ...
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