PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index rose one index point in December to 33.7 points.

GRAPHIC storyteller Frank Miller is the creator of Sin City, 300 and The Dark Knight Returns.

Sunday night's fire at a downtown building displaced three residents of an apartment as well as a business, but was quickly contained and resulted in no injuries.

Around 850 jobs are being axed at failed childrenswear chain Adams. Some 850 jobs will go from kiddie clothing shop Adams Administrators said 111 stores would close.

Total funds raised through initial public offerings in China are expected to rise nearly 47 percent to 152 billion yuan this year from 103.5 billion yuan in 2008, according to a report from ...

Without a single initial public offering on Canada's senior equity exchange in the last six months, 2008 was the worst year for IPOs in the history of the annual survey of Canada's equity markets by ...

Auto executives across the globe are increasingly pessimistic about their industry, and only a small number expect their companies' profits to rise in the next five years, according to an annual survey.

Prepare up to eight returns per copy at no extra cost MISSISSAUGA, ON, Jan. 6 /CNW/ - At a time when every dollar counts, who wouldn't want the biggest refund they deserve? Canadians using QuickTax this year ...

Global automotive execs expect a significant decline in market share for United States vehicle manufacturers but continue to see U.S. OEMs becoming more efficient and competitive in the near term, according to ...

Bank of America Corp., GMAC LLC, and WL Ross & Co. are among mortgage servicers that have endured billions of dollars in unexpected costs and added thousands of workers to handle rising foreclosures, denting a ...

In a letter to directors, Raju said he falsified the accounts 'for several years' and quit.

Indian police on Tuesday searched the offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the auditors of the troubled outsourcing giant Satyam Computers, whose founder last week admitted to doctoring the company's accounts for years, an official said.Satyam's balance sheets were riddled with 'fictitious' assets and 'non existent' cash and contained a $1 billion gap that could no longer be concealed after a deal intended to save the struggling company was abandoned, the company's founder and former chairman B. Ramalinga Raju admitted in a letter to the company's board.

A battle is raging on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where CVS Caremark Corp. is wooing cash-strapped shoppers with house-brand anti-wrinkle cream that's as much as 30 percent cheaper than L'Oreal SA's Advanced ...

Alvarez & Marsal , one of the leading independent global professional services firms specializing in performance improvement, turnaround management and business advisory services, announced it has expanded its ...

U.S. retailers lost ground to overseas store chains in terms of total sales in 2007, a trend that is expected to continue with a swift decline in consumer spending habits, according to a new study released on ...

Accountancy giant Ernst & Young LLP has been appointed as the administrator to Nortel Networks Ltd.

Staff members from the Buffalo office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP recently presented a donation of $4,000 to Roswell Park Cancer Institute's Department of Pastoral Care in support of the End of ...

There was quite a debate raging on the Street Thursday morning about what to do with shares of Apple in the wake of Wednesday's news that CEO Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence until June to deal with his ...

Trammell Crow, who began his business career as the teller behind the window H-to-M at the Mercantile National Bank in Dallas and rose to become one of America's largest real estate developers and landlords, ...

Kansas City, MO - infoZine - Marketwire - Taxpayers in 2009 face a complicated filing season in light of recent legislation that could impact returns for first-time homebuyers and disaster victims to parents ...

The upmarket seafood chain FishWorks today became the latest high street firm to go into administration.

Taxpayers urge across the board cuts in tax poll CALGARY, Jan. 22 /CNW/ - With a Federal Budget looming on January 27, Canadians are pondering their wish list to the government.

NEW YORK_Venture capital investments plunged 33 percent in the fourth quarter, falling to the lowest level in nearly four years as the financiers of new business ideas became more reluctant to take on new risks ...

When Uncle Sam comes calling, not even the jobless are exempt. Unemployment aid is taxed as regular income for the federal government and most states, said Mark Steber, vice president of tax resources at ...

Venture capital investment declined 8% to $30.9 billion in 2008, according to the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on Thomson Reuters' data.

Former HR Block chief executive Mark Ernst has joined the Internal Revenue Service — the agency that is Block’s reason for being — as the No.

The global economic downturn has battered hopes for future business prospects, sending CEO confidence to its lowest level in at least six years, according to an annual worldwide survey of top bosses to be ...

Academy President Sid Ganis shows a facsimile Oscar ballot during the preparation and mailing of final Oscar ballots, which will determine the winners of the 81st Academy Awards are sorted at the Academy of ...

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP acquires Sustainable Finance Ltd., an advisory firm focused on environmental and social risk management in the financial services sector.

During the quarter, Wells Fargo recorded a write-down of $37.2 billion related to high-risk loans in Wachovia's portfolio.