INVESTORS who ploughed funds into international shares are set for another year of double-digit returns.

The collapse of one of the nation's oldest engineering companies, RCR Tomlinson, has destroyed Christmas for thousands of families, according to the union dealing with the fallout from the unexpected job losses.

Telco’s venture capital arm tips $10m into Nginx and its application delivery platform.

AUSTRALIAN consumers are the gloomiest they have been in three years, survey data released this morning shows.

JOHN Wylie will step down at year’s end as head of Lazard Advisory in Australia to be replaced by ­Andrew Leyden and Lachlan ­Edwards.

THE global chief executive of News Corp says print advertising has become even more valuable in a “digitally discursive age”.

AUSTRALIA’S coal exporters are facing a new challenge in the form of stiffer competition from Russian exporters in Asian markets.

THE most powerful CEOs in America believe that people management will be one of the most important issues next year.

BROADCASTER Ten Network has told shareholders it is still considering takeover proposals, and cautioned the offers may not result in a transaction.

AUSTRALIAN online retail foreign exchange broker Pepperstone has abandoned plans for an imminent IPO after the Swiss uncapping.

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.