Shares in Commonwealth Bank soared above $70 to a new record yesterday as the local stocks hit a 4 1/2-year high after encouraging US non-farm payrolls data suggested the world's biggest economy was recovering. Strength in defensive and ...
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Esdevium Games has reported a rise in sales for a number of its titles. BBC reports Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne sales have increased rom 8,000 in 2010 to 18,000 last year. Sales of railroad building game Ticket to Ride have ...
Investors took a record high for US stocks - the bellwether Dow Jones Industrial Index eclipsing its pre-global financial crisis peak - as confirmation that the US economic recovery is gathering strength and sent the local market to its ...
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The UK’s biggest independent toy chain's owner Gary Grant (middle) and his directors – and sons – Stuart (right) and Duncan (left), explain how the retailer is offering the traditional toy shop ideal on a national scale. ...
The Australian sharemarket roared back yesterday, recovering most of its 75-point loss on Monday, after a US Federal Reserve official reiterated the central bank's commitment to quantitative easing, local retail sales exceeded expectations ...
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THE sharemarket closed higher after news that Australian retailers recorded their strongest January sales growth in six years led to gains for discretionary retail stocks. Retail spending rose 0.9 per cent, seasonally adjusted, in January ...
The Australian sharemarket has reached a fresh four-and-a-half-year high, buoyed by improved investor sentiment towards the Italian election outcome. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 67.5 points, or 1.34 per cent, ...
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Australian shares rose to a 4 1/2 year high yesterday on strength in Asian and European markets. US economic data beat expectations and central bankers in Europe and the US reassured investors easy monetary policy will continue. ...
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Dematic has released the Vocollect SRX2 wireless voice headset. Wireless headsets are said to provide a better user experience and reduced maintenance costs, compared to wired headsets. However in the past, wireless headsets were not ...
While Woolworths Limited saw a strong rise in its traditional supermarket revenues in the past six months, its hotel and poker machine interests delivered remarkably strong increases. Woolworths’ ALH Group saw revenues jump more ...
Thelocal sharemarket fell sharply yesterday as an indecisive national election in Italy raised the prospect of another sell-off in European bond markets that could rekindle the continent's debt crisis. Italy was headed for a political ...
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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 ...
Yammer plans to roll out an integration with the SkyDrive Pro cloud storage product and the Office Web Apps Web-hosted productivity application suite this summer. The initiative is part of Yammer's push to deepen and extend the ...
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Half-year profits at Coles, Australia's second-largest retailer, increased by more than 15%, owner Wesfarmers has reported. Earnings before interest and tax from Coles for the six months to the end of December were up 15.1% at A$755m. ...
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Weaker investor sentiment sent the Australian dollar to its lowest levels since October in thin trading conditions because of the Lunar New Year celebrations in Asia. The sharemarket was flat, also in thin trading, as investors remained ...
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