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National Australia Bank has released its data for Monthly Business Survey and Economic Outlook for February today. According to the data, the business confidence was reported to reach the November level which is the highest level since May 2002. The improved trading conditions and profitability played a major role in the rising of business confidence.

The government of New South Wales is all set to sell the state owned waste business WSN Environmental Solutions. WSN operates eleven waste recycling, processing and disposal facilities around Sydney. The Treasurer Eric Roozendaal provided this information saying that legislation will be introduced to parliament today to allow the transfer of the waste business to private sector. The budget committee of state cabinet has already given its clearance to the sale of WSN yesterday.

According to the recently completed Dun & Bradstreet National Business Expectations Survey, the Sales and profit expectations in Australian businesses are reportedly increased for the second quarter of the current fiscal. The growing business expectations show that the economy is recovering very fast and the businesses are also taking the advantage of this recovery.

The survey reveals that the Sales expectations among Australian businesses for the second quarter ending June 2010 were reported to reach the highest levels for past 6 years. Also, the profits expectations for the period are reported to reach 5 year high levels.

Tata Teleservices Ltd's GSM brand Tata Docomo on Monday has released a tariff plan for its enterprise clientele, which permits the users to carry forward their leftover talk time and text messages for a period of three months.

Australia along with India, China, Brazil, Taiwan, Peru and Costa Rica posted the strongest hiring outlook for the coming quarter, as per a survey done by Manpower Inc.

After the recession, the job market across the globe had collapsed and now it is expected to go "strong" as per the opinion of the employers which took part in the survey. The Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, as it is called, said that on an overall basis the employers expect the job market to grow at a "healthy pace".

The World's largest two-wheeler company by volume for nine consecutive years decided to celebrate the World Women's day in its own fancy way by launching a special edition of its Pleasure scooter. Taking its 'why should boys have the fun' approach, the company launched the popular scooter in a pearl white colour with a blast of red.