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The Australian share market is trading flat in the early session, after US and European share markets failed to rally overnight, despite Eurozone officials approving the second Greek bailout deal. At lunchtime in the East, the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) is lower by 4.2pts or 0.1pct to 4364.

About 2,700 small enterprises folded up in Australia in the last quarter of 2011, indicating the weak national economy outside the booming mining sector.

The Minerals Council of Australia is supporting the minerals resource rent tax. Mitch Hooke, chief of the council, told a Senate hearing in Canberra on Tuesday that the proposed 30 per cent tax on profits of large coal and iron producers is workable.

Eurozone finance ministers have approved the 130 billion euro ($171 billion) bailout package to Greece but this will not be good enough to solve the crisis faced by the named according to IHS Global Insight.

Shares of Alibaba.com, an e-commerce company have risen 43% early Wednesday after resuming trade encouraged by the news that it would take the company private.

Johnson & Johnson announced Tuesday that William C. Weldon would retire in April as its chief executive.

SR Exports, Australia's largest producer of tomatoes, blamed on Wednesday the country's supermarket giants for their poor business which led to the agricultural company's voluntary administration and loss of 60 jobs.

Dell reported a fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $764 million, or 43 cents a share, compared with a profit of $927 million or 48 cents a share for the year-earlier period, weighed down by weak consumer PC sales, pricing and supply issues caused by the floods in Thailand.

El secretario de Estado de Comercio se reúne en Barcelona con el millonario Sheldon Adelson. El Ministerio de Economía ha recibido la lista de cambios normativos que pide el magnate

El beneficio neto ascendió a 364,6 millones de euros. El control de costes operativos y financieros y la adquisición de activos a terceros motivan el alza