Babcock and Brown Ltd securities may fall on Thursday after it warned any capital restructure would significantly dilute existing shareholders & #39; equity.

Most affluent Australian homeowners think the value of their homes and investment properties will fall in the March quarter, a survey shows.

Market observers expect the number of company profit warnings to increase this financial year as tougher economic conditions start to really bite.

Leighton & #39;s latest profit guidance may be at risk because of the slowing Australian resources sector and Middle Eastern construction market, analysts say.

Experts from three UN agencies are in the Philippines to investigate an outbreak of the Ebola-Reston virus at two pig farms north of Manila.

National Australia Bank has raised & #36;US2.5 billion ( & #36;A3.51 billion) from US investors in the biggest Australian government guaranteed bond deal.

Cheaper fertiliser is expected to provide some relief to Australian farmers this year, according to a report released by Dutch-based Rabobank.

A surprising rise in retail sales during November could slow the pace of Reserve Bank of Australia & #39;s (RBA) cuts to interest rates, an economist says.

Supermarket giant Woolworths Ltd will cut its Everyday Money Credit Card interest rate by 100 basis points.

The sales of new homes fell in November as the economic downturn and tighter access of credit took hold, a survey shows.

Oil and gas explorer Santos has signed a & #36;US585 million ( & #36;A808.79 million) contract with CITIC Pacific Mining to supply gas to the Sino Iron project in WA.

Shares in energy explorer Innamincka Petroleum Ltd have gone into a trading halt, the company saying it is in negotiations to farm out some of its interests.

Commercial property investor Tishman Speyer says its US office fund has lost ten per cent of its asset value.

Struggling US motoring giant General Motors (GM) has axed the Australian-made Pontiac G8 ST sports truck, a vehicle based on the popular Holden ute.

A measure of the US services sector has improved slightly in December, but pending home sales and factory orders have both fallen more than expected.

Inflation in the euro countries slumped in December to 1.6 per cent - the lowest in over two years - according to an estimate from EU & #39;s Eurostat data agency.

British retail institution Woolworths closed the doors on a century of trading as the latest victim of the financial crisis shut down the last of its stores.

Toyota Motor Corporation said on Tuesday that it would suspend production at all of its domestic plants for 11 days between February and March as sales slumped.

Sales of environmentally friendly petrol-electric hybrid vehicles are steadily increasing in Australia, new figures show.

Australians continue to buy more bicycles than cars with the economic downturn and climate change driving sales, the Cycling Promotion Fund (CPF) says.