ONE of Australia's largest luxury boat builders has blamed adverse market conditions for its decision to lay off 200 workers.

A QUARTER of Australia's working women say females are not treated equally in the workplace - and one in five males agree.

VISA, the world's largest credit card network, said overnight that quarterly earnings rose, helped by declining tax expenses, but the company's shares fell in after-market trading.

US FOOD giant Campbell Arnott's is to close its southern Sydney biscuit and chocolate factory, resulting in the loss of 150 jobs