Western Australia's unemployment rate has jumped to a near six-year high while the national jobless rate holds steady at 5.8 per cent as employers chose to cut employee hours rather than slash jobs, new figures show.
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SIXTY per cent of Australian charities have reported falling revenues during the past six months with two thirds predicting a further loss of income during the next year.
LISTED Perth property developer Cedar Woods Properties has smashed its forecast profit for the year, booking net earnings of $9.3 million for the 2008-09 financial year.
ANXIETY over foreign investment is compounding the funding challenges created by the global financial crisis, according to the junior mining executives at the recent WA Business News roundtable.
GIANT South Korean conglomerate Samsung Corporation has thrown its weight behind Perdaman Chemicals & Fertilisers' proposed $3.5 billion urea project at Collie by taking a small equity interest in the venture.
THE release of a report recommending tougher regulations concerning insider trading and director share trades has prompted an outcry from a group protecting directors' interests.
Despite the massive plunge in share values in recent months, many junior miners are once again optimistic about the future – provided government comes to the party.
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Sydney-based RIMCapital has written off its investment in unlisted company Yilgarn Infrastructure Ltd, which was the unsuccessful bidder for the development of the Oakajee deepwater port and associated rail project.
West Perth-based Antares Energy has pocketed $10 million and plans to raise a further $2 million to buy additional Eagle Ford shale acreage in Texas and boost working capital.
South Korea's Samsung Corporation has agreed to invest $40 million to take a small direct interest in Perdaman Chemicals & Fertilisers' $3.5 billion Collie urea project.
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Atlas South Sea Pearls expects to record a half-yearly profit of $2 million on the back of a general downturn in demand for luxury goods, offset by cost savings implemented by the Subiaco-based company.
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank expects its full-year earnings to be cut by a further 16 per cent after making extra provisions against its $550 million exposure to investors in Great Southern agribusiness schemes.
Western Australia's house price index has risen 2.7 per cent in the June quarter, in line with the national upward trend, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today.
Development of Galaxy Resources' Mt Cattlin lithium project is ramping up with the emerging producer awarding a key contract to the DRA Pacific, Mintrex and BEC Engineering joint venture.
Shares in West Perth-based Metals Australia have plunged today after a Namibian court ruled two of the explorer's prospecting licences be turned over to their original owner.
Moly Mines has warned its future depends on the success of debt restructure talks with its lender as project acquisition plans are put on the backburner.
The state government has conditionally agreed to build part of a major power line in the Mid West after it omitted the upgrade in this year's budget due to a substantial cost blow-out.
The state's resource companies have led a strong rebound in the Deloitte WA Index in the second half of the 2009 financial year, with the market capitalisation of stocks jumping 30 per cent in the June quarter.
A group of Perth businessmen have won a three-year battle against Western Areas directors Terry Streeter and David Cooper, with the Supreme Court today awarding nearly $65 million to unrelated company Western Areas Exploration.
Western Australians are a negative lot compared to the rest of the nation with nearly half responding to a home finance survey believing their property values will decline in the next quarter.
Macmahon Holdings has been awarded a $60 million contract by the Ulan Line Alliance for rail construction work as part of plans for increased coal output in the Hunter Valley.
