The Australian share market has fallen to a two month low, dropping 2.4 per cent today following falls on global markets responding to political turmoil in Greece.

AAP Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange at close on Wednesday: BHP - BHP BILLITON LTD - down $1.37 - or 4.04 per cent - at $32.49 BHP Billiton chairman Jacques Nasser says the global miner will not spend the $80 billion on growth projects ...

Sonic Healthcare Limited (ASX:SHL) has inked a deal to buy the New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australian pathology businesses of Healthscope for $100 million.

AS far as listed stocks go, Wayne Swan's numbers-shuffling effort last night was more compelling for the absence of the "what might have been" measures, rather than the efforts that made their way to the voluminous tome.