RISING interest rates are curbing demand for credit, but new data shows they have had little impact so far on inflation pressures.

THE Australian share market opened higher today, led by BHP Billiton gains following reports it will partner Chinese firms to invest in mines overseas.

AUSTRALIA’S annual inflation rate in March was 4 per cent for the second month in a row, well above the Reserve Bank’s 2 to 3 per cent target.

The NSW government’s decision to delay the daylight saving time change by a week has caused widespread IT chaos, with Telstra, the RTA, Qantas, and radio station 2GB all reporting problems.

FALLOUT from the first collapse of an Australian stockbroker in a decade hangs over financial markets today as banks behind Opes Prime sell off shares in an effort to recover $1 billion in loans.

FALLOUT from the first collapse of an Australian stockbroker in a decade will hang over financial markets today.

British-based LiveLeak.com, which was the first Web site to post the anti-Koran film by a Dutch lawmaker, has removed the film after threats to its staff “of a very serious nature,” it said.

THE Australian dollar has opened the week lower after high yielding currencies were sold off after Friday’s local session closed.

Hackers have defaced the Web site of Indonesia’s information ministry in response to a government move to restrict access to pornographic material on the Internet, an official said on Friday.

QANTAS will add add extra flights between Perth and Broome, Kalgoorlie, Karratha, Newman and Port Hedland, citing booming demand for WA destinations.