Woodside needs to raise its bid for Oil Search to have any chance of success, analysts at UBS have said.

360 Capital Group has taken another step towards launching a takeover play for Allan Fife’s Australian Industrial REIT.

GLOBAL miner Anglo American has flagged further job cuts and asset sales in a bid to restructure the company as prices fall.

Advertising spending contributes about $40 billion a year to the Australian economy, or 2 per cent of GDP.

A COMPANY spruiking luxury Redfern apartments claimed Aboriginal people have “moved out” of the Sydney suburb.

Former engineering high flyer Ausenco has become the latest mining services company to be swallowed by private equity.

WOODSIDE has plugged the gaping hole in its growth pipeline, paying $4.6bn for interests in two liquefied natural gas developments.

THE proportion of women in leadership roles at in-house legal departments has grown strongly.

CEO Andy Penn says he has “no plans” to sell telco’s 50 per cent stake in Foxtel.

New Zealand’s competition watchdog has cited areas of overlap from a Fairfax-APN merger.

GLOBAL markets remained stuck in a volatility trap yesterday after a wild 48 hours marked by heavy losses from China to Europe.

AUSTRALIA’S sharemarket is on track for its biggest two-day gain in a year after a rally led by resources and financial stocks.

Fast-growing Melbourne payments company PromisePay is ramping its growth plans in the global platform economy.

Three people are charged in connection with an alleged million-dollar gold theft in Western Australia's Goldfields, in which police say more than 8,000 tonnes of gold-bearing ore was stolen.

TREASURY Wine Estates chief Michael Clarke is pledging to jettison his cheap commercial brands in the US.