asxmining.com

It seems that McValue can mean different things, depending on where you live.

Fairfax Media Ltd is soliciting interest in a capital raising for as much as & #36;500 million, a media report says.

Origin Energy says it could spend & #36;2 billion on a major acquisition as it plans to draw on its multi-billion-dollar war chest.

Hundreds of Victorian schools and child care centres will be closed tomorrow because of the bushfire threat.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has reported a net loss of STG24.1 billion ( & #36;A52.75 billion) in 2008, the largest annual shortfall recorded by a British company.

THE share market closed modestly stronger thanks to gains in the financial, energy and industrial sectors.

PROPERTY giant Lend Lease will cut its Australian workforce by about 400 positions, as it copes with a half-year loss of $596.4 million.

TRANSPORT and logistics company Toll Holdings has posted a 33 per cent fall in first half net profit after writedowns and says its second half will be better.

ORIGIN Energy, Australia’s second largest power retailer, has delivered an increase in first half profit and forecast up to a 25 per cent rise in earnings for the full year.

INSURANCE Australia Group (IAG) has reported a 96 per cent fall in first half profit, after the country’s biggest general insurer was hit by falling investment values.