ASX closes up, but down for the week
Financials and basic materials had the biggest gains in Friday’s trade, while energy, real estate, and utilities lead the losses.
Manufacturing
Premier’s big cost-of-living relief promise
One state’s premier has pledged to back small business with cost-of-living relief to help them stare down interest-rates and inflation pressures.
‘Urgent’: Batteries recalled on fire risk
Homeowners with solar panels are being warned some popular energy storage batteries could catch fire, cause serious injury or even death.
Claim illegal union blockade a biohazard risk
The heated standoff between union workers and a major poultry supplier included allegations an illegal blockade posed a biohazard risk.
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Local car industry to go distance
THE Federal Government says Ford, Toyota and Holden will not shut its factories early despite new lows for sales of locally-made cars.
Is this the end of petrol cars?
THE future of motoring is a step closer, with Australia’s first hydrogen refuelling point for cars. Now the industry is trying to create a network.
Sushi rolls hide a shocking secret
CHAINED up in ships, whipped with toxic stingray tails and fed only a few mouthfuls of rice. These are the pictures one industry doesn’t want the world to see.
Can you name our top 10 companies?
THE list is out for Australia’s biggest retail earners of 2014. Can you guess which company topped the list?
Ford Australia boss quits
DETROITER Bob Graziano said he would stay to oversee the Ford Australia factory closures. But today he announced his retirement from the company he served for 32 years.
Why your ice cream is bad for monkeys
IT’S a jungle out there. But you won’t believe how your run-of-the-mill ice-cream is creating a threat to the animal world — in more ways than one.
French yoghurt bosses in conspiracy
FRANTIC text messages between CEOs about cottage cheese prices. Clandestine smoke breaks to collude on yoghurt strategy. Yoplait: it’s French for ‘crime’.
The dirty secret behind your clothes
GROPING, sexual harassment and pressure to have abortions. These are the dirty secrets sewn into some of our favourite big brand clothing. And we are literally wearing the blame.
‘Miracle’ comeback in tsunami-wrecked Japan
JAPAN’S devastating tsunami in 2011 destroyed a 200-year old company, leaving a patch of dirt where the building once stood. But now it’s back after a fluke discovery.
Baby formula poison threat exposed
POLICE are investigating a threat to contaminate infant and other formula in an apparent protest over the use of 1080 poison for pest control.
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