Australia and New Zealand Banking Group News

Chris Snow in Adelaide Australia's wine industry is reeling from a series of unwelcome developments.

NATIONAL Australia Bank's automatic teller machine disloyalty fee has won it a 10 per cent rise in customer loyalty since the new ATM fee regime was introduced.

BASF Crop Protection announced the appointment of Paul Rea to Director, U.S. Crop Business, effective July 1, 2009.

The Black Eyed Peas have announced their return to New Zealand, with one show in Auckland in October.

BANKER and insurer Suncorp-Metway has announced financial services executive Patrick Snowball as its new chief executive officer.

Australia has surprised the world and avoided recession, but some of the reasons for its remarkable achievement are far from flattering.

The lawlessness of Somalia has spread fear and panic to one of the world's smallest and most isolated nations, tiny Tuvalu, that sits in the South Pacific Ocean near the International Date Line.

Birlasoft has been named among the top 10 best outsourcing service providers in Australia and New Zealand region, by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals , in their list 2009 Global Outsourcing 100.

MATT Giteau scored all the points as the Wallabies issued a warning to their Tri Nations rivals with a 22-6 triumph over in-form France at ANZ Stadium.

A drop in stillbirth rates in the UK has given experts hope that a reduction in stillbirths can occur in Australia and New Zealand.

Shares rose for a fourth day out of the past five as mining stocks gained on stronger metal prices, while firms relying on domestic growth benefited after the IMF lifted its economic growth forecast for Australia.

THE dollar is expected to oscillate around 80 US cents over the second half of calendar 2009, but could move higher if China's appetite for Australian resource commodities ramps up.

For China, the trade dispute raised this week with the West may in retrospect seem minor compared to the ructions that await Beijing as its state firms start to punch their weight on global commodity markets.

Australia has slipped out of the rankings of the world's top 10 nations with the most millionaires as a result of the global financial crisis, a survey says.

National Australia Bank Ltd will pay $660 million for most of British insurer Aviva Plc's Australian businesses to become the country's dominant investment platform provider and insurance underwriter.

Toll Holdings Ltd says the Toll Group has bought three Asia-based international express businesses to complement its air freight operations.

A CONSORTIUM led by AFL chairman Mike Fitzpatrick has bought control of the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, The Australian Online can reveal.

The Government has agreed to establish a taskforce that will work on ways to close the productivity gap between Australia and New Zealand, party leader Rodney Hide said today.

It's simple. The Fujitsu M2010 defines what an all-in-one mobile companion for work, school and play should look and perform like.

Japanese whalers in a small fishing town near Tokyo celebrated their first catch of the season Sunday and cut up the harvest in a demonstration to promote their fading tradition.