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Coal-hauler Aurizon will write down up to $197 million in the first half after deciding to sell or scrap a large number of train locomotives and wagons, as well as reducing the size of rail projects to service mines.

Insurance Australia Group is making an aggressive move to become the country's biggest provider of commercial and motor insurance, snapping up Wesfarmers' underwriting businesses for $1.85 billion.

The local sharemarket fell for the seventh time in the past eight sessions, joining a regional slide before the US Federal Reserve's meeting this week and after a measure of factory activity in China unexpectedly fell to a three-month low.

Newly listed Nine Entertainment Co has enjoyed a boost in revenue, due largely to the Ashes Test cricket series between Australia and England, while Seven West Media has the biggest share of the metropolitan free-to-air television advertising market.

Companies are failing to accurately disclose the value of their assets in financial reports, prompting a number of inquiries by the corporate regulator.

Australia's biggest superannuation fund, AustralianSuper, has accused the federal government's Future Fund of engaging in "misleading or deceptive conduct" over its purchase of a stake in Perth Airport.

As much as $US50 billion ($55.8 billion) of planned coalmine developments in Queensland and NSW are at risk due to an expected slowing in prospective Chinese demand - with knock-on effects for a range of service suppliers.

Small businesses operating in the cash economy are being targeted, with tax authorities tracking credit card transactions of almost 1 million businesses.

Cooper Basin oil and gas explorer and developer Senex Energy unnerved investors on Monday with an apparently ill-thought-out plan to expand by acquisition by buying fellow mid-sized explorer AWE.

It could be a tale of two insurers. Just days after one-time Insurance Australia Group stalker QBE Insurance issued another confidence-shaking profit downgrade, IAG makes a $1.85 billion move on the insurance unit of Perth conglomerate Wesfarmers.

It's a fair bet that when chief executive Richard Goyder received the first of several unsolicited approaches from insurance companies looking to buy Wesfarmers' insurance underwriting business, he figured his ship had come in.

A partnership between American and Israeli universities, backed by New York City's government, aims to establish the leading technology educational institution in the world by combining the best know-how from academic and commercial worlds.

Listed data centre provider NextDC says Telstra business and government customers will be able to move their critical IT infrastructure into NextDC co-location facilities in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and Perth from February.