Australia's central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 5.25 percent.
The Reserve Bank of Australia twice lifted its key rate by 25 basis points in November and again in December but has left it unchanged since then.
Small businesses in South Australia are the least optimistic of all states on the outlook for the national economy, a new survey has found.
More than 540,000 small businesses, for the first time, will be forced to provide redundancy pay to sacked workers in a wide-ranging overhaul of the nation's employment laws.
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) has introduced a new political risk insurance (PRI) policy for Plant and Equipment to meet the specific needs of the mining, engineering and construction sectors.
A Federal Court judge has thrown out a A$1 million-plus legal action by Sydney-based business financier Scottish Pacific against rival Benchmark Debtor Finance and its managing director Peter Langham.
The Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) announced today that it has provided a 300 million Thai Baht (A$10 million) Export Finance Guarantee to DBS Thai Danu Bank Public Company Limited (DBS) to support Australian operator Oceanis Hold
Economic expectations improved with 19 per cent of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) expecting Australia's economy to be better in a year.
A company supplying shock absorbers to car makers had secretly imposed a "waterfront-style" corporate restructure to avoid paying almost $4 million in workers' entitlements, a tribunal has been told.
About 25 providers in Australia offer cash-flow finance, in the form of both invoice discounting and factoring, where the factor also manages the sales ledger and collection of accounts.
Cashflow has emerged as the biggest concern for South Australian small businesses, according to a survey carried out by Intrinsic, “Small Business Pressure Points”
