Bangladesh says it meets US factory safety
BANGLADESH says its garment industry has met the US’ safety and workers rights conditions and should have its preferential trade status re-instated.
BANGLADESH says its garment industry has met the US’ safety and workers rights conditions and should have its preferential trade status re-instated.
CHINA’S falling demand for milk and the Asian nation’s economic slowdown is being felt by NZ farmers, with suicide rates increasing.
TRANSPACIFIC is disappointed that Mr Perko has decided to return home to the United States after signing a retention deal in August.
THE AOFM has sold $300 million of April 21, 2033 Treasury bonds.
A SUMMARY of the big, really big and not so big numbers of the past week.
THE Federal Reserve’s decision not to raise its benchmark interest rate in September has given emerging a markets a small reprieve, the World Bank says.
THE VW brand is so closely aligned with Germany’s reputation for precision and reliability, the emissions scanadal could threaten the nation’s standing.
OUTER suburbs are outperforming inner suburbs in Perth, Hobart and Darwin in terms of the growth in house values.
HIGHER prices for inner-city housing do not necessarily translate into stronger value growth, CoreLogic RP Data says.
VACANT land prices have continued to increase in the capital cities although lot sizes are falling.
GOLD has its best day since late January, rallying more than two per cent as the US dollar weakens, before closing 2.00 per cent higher.
AS the ACCC launches an investigation into Volkswagen’s cars in the local market, Australians are unclear about whether their cars could be affected.
PRIME Minister Shinzo Abe has outlined a plan to help stimulate Japan’s economy.
PATHOLOGY and medical centres operator Sonic Healthcare has chopped $15m off its profit result for 2014/15 because of debts in Germany.
REGIONAL TV broadcaster Prime Media has made a disappointing start to the new financial year, with total ad revenues tumbling 6.9pct.
BLACKROCK, the world’s biggest asset manager and BHP’s biggest shareholder, is no longer a substantial shareholder in the mining giant amid China worries
MACQUARIE Group chairman Kevin McCann will retire from the investment house next March and be replaced by independent director Peter Warne.
PATRICK Snowball says after six years at the helm of Suncorp, he’s leaving the insurer in a solid position with strong growth momentum.
EUROPEAN authorities have approved Starpharma’s VivaGel, which attacks sexually transmitted viruses in women.
STOCKS of interest on the Australian Securities Exchange on Thursday
FONTERRA’S higher forecast payout to farmers for this season has boosted the kiwi dollar against major currencies.
BUILDING products group Brickworks expects its earnings to improve in 2016, after posting record underlying profit.
CAN a government that has imposed austerity measures, cutting pay and pensions and increasing taxes, win Portugal’s October 4 election?
THE number of Hispanic-owned businesses in the US has grown at an annual rate of 7.5 per cent, far higher than the 0.5 per cent for all other companies.
NZ’S trade deficit for August is wider than expected but aircraft imports account for most of the variation, says Westpac senior economist Satish Ranchhod.
A TREATY providing a framework for broader investment in each nation’s economy will be of key interest to US and Chinese business leaders at Xi meeting.
GROWTH across the eurozone’s 19 member nations is slowing, falling 0.4 points in September
G8 Education chairperson Jenny Hutson says she is stepping aside to allow “renewal” after her failure to buy rival childcare provider Affinity Education.
WASHINGTON H Soul Pattinson’s statutory full year net profit has fallen due to non-regular items, but underlying profit rises.
THE country’s biggest dairy company, Fonterra, is forecasting a better payout for its farmer shareholders in the coming season.
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