Staff Reporters

Protect BHP, Rio from ETS: Carpenter; More banks tipped to lift rates; US Feds shore up Fannie, Freddie; Jittery investors turn back on emerging company floats: survey; Tatts chief airs tie-up with Tabcorp

Newly-listed engineering company Emerson Stewart Group Ltd said it is on track to beat its fiscal 2008 earnings forecast, as outlined in its prospectus, by at least 5 per cent.

Miners' $500m bet on uranium; Gas find boosts Chevron's Wheatstone hopes; Monarch calls time over weight of Territory debt; Brierty mired in Boddington pay row; Alcoa chief cautious on emissions as costs soar

Adventure Learning Channel Worldwide has pushed back is planned listing on the Australian Securities Exchange to August after lowering its initial public offer to $2.5 million.

Western Australian companies APAC Coal Ltd and Kilgore Oil & Gas Ltd have succumbed to the overall market downturn today, debuting underwater on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Rio Tinto Ltd will sell its Kintyre uranium project in Western Australia to a joint venture consortium for $US495 million ($A520 million), as it moves closer to completing its $US10 billion ($A10.5 billion) asset sales target for this year.

IAG shores up its home defences; Gas blast deflates Alcoa's numbers; Fortnum mine owner in strife as fund pulls loan; Half-price tag on Chemeq HQ threatens payout; Macmahon to establish Aboriginal contractors

THE five finalists for the WA Pitch ’08 competition have been announced, with a winner to be decided at the WA State Library on July 11.

Beau Deleuil Partner in charge Mallesons Stephen Jaques Perth

MINING tenements in the iron ore rich Pilbara region have all been secured, after a land-grab triggered by Fortescue Metals Group Ltd.

The Iris Appleyard Foundation is a charitable trust named after the Western Australian artist and writer of the same name, who passed away from Alzheimer’s in 2004.

THE Yadgalah Aboriginal Corporation and Indigenous Business Australia this week sold their joint 50 per cent partnership interest in the Monkey Mia resort to Aspen Parks Property Management Ltd for $9

A NEW inter-departmental group has been formed by the state government to address the shortage of sand for building and construction work in the South West.

Calling all businesses with Scandavian links. Australia’s first ever international floorballing championships, is to be held at the Loftus Centre in Leederville next month.

EIGHT months after it bought the site for $70 million, Goodman International Ltd has signed US-based drilling services company, Boart Longyear Ltd, as the anchor tenant for its Stockyards Industrial E

Clough appoints Spence CLOUGH Ltd has appointed former Woodside Petroleum Ltd executive Keith Spence as an independent non-executive director.

FORMER technology company, Wavenet International Ltd, has joined the rush by local investors seeking to exploit booming coal prices, agreeing to buy a stake in four coal tenements in Queensland.

Visiting WA Robin Sharma, organisational and leadership coach and best selling author of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari and The Greatness Guide, to present his full day leadership workshop, ‘Lead With

FOLLOWING on from the successful opening of a number of small bars in the area, Subiaco is set to host a new exclusive late night lounge bar.

BUSINESS confidence in Western Australia has defied a plunging national trend, a new report on Australian’s small and medium-sized enterprises market has found.

There’s nothing more the Note loves than to give things away.

THERE was a lot of talk at the recent Australian Tourism Exchange event in Perth about the potential for Baz Luhrmann’s new film, Australia, to promote the country, and in particular Western Australia

Ross Garnaut was in town this week spruiking the delights of climate change and sparking an adverse reaction and calls for calm from the state and federal opposition.

Perth-based Bankwest has become the latest bank to lift its standard variable home loan rate, increasing it by 0.2 per cent to 9.55 per cent.

West Perth-based African Energy Resources (Guernsey) Ltd and partner Albidon Ltd have elected to proceed with a bankable feasibility study over an African uranium project after a previous analysis pegged total capital costs at $93 million.

Perth-based IT services provider ASG Group Ltd has forecast a 44 per cent increase in earnings for the 2008 financial year on the back of securing a number of government and corporate contracts.

Rocketing costs kill luxury CBD tower; Property dive feeds bourse to bears; Mystery buyer nabs 6pc of Cape Lambert; Unlisted property funds in ASIC sights; Wage rise stokes inflation fear

Two Western Australian companies have become entangled in the fall-out of Primebroker Securities Ltd, part of the Chimaera Financial Group.

Belmont-based Ferrowest Ltd has doubled the scope of the engineering study into its Yalgoo iron project to one million tonnes per annum on the back of high demand for merchant pig iron.

East Perth-based resource company Legacy Iron Ore Ltd has started listed life on a positive note with its share price closing at a 20 per cent premium to its issue price.

Murchison quits bid with shot at Sinosteel; No need for exporters to fear: Garnaut; Pratt accuses ACCC of 'abuse of power'; Veteran brokers drive $150m takeover by Bell; Shock downgrade rattles market

Brockman Resources Ltd has received the go ahead from its shareholders to complete a $112.5 million capital raising.