High debt levels, the global economic downturn and BHP Billiton's decision to pull its takeover proposal have prompted credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings to remove Rio Tinto from its 'rating watch positive' list.
The state government is seeking public comment on a new rail-based transport connection in Kwinana to alleviate heavy vehicles using main roads between Fremantle and Forrestfield.
China has lowered its key one-year lending rate 108 basis points to 5.58 percent, the most in 11 years, extending efforts to prevent an economic slump less than three weeks after unveiling a 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus plan.
JUST 18 months out from the introduction of a national emissions trading scheme, uncertainty still overrides the debate over how the scheme will directly, and indirectly, affect some of Western Australia's largest businesses.
AUSTRALIA'S largest mortgage aggregator, Australian Finance Group, has reported strong growth in profits for the 2008 financial year, but the entire industry is struggling in the current economic climate, and the extended outlook is far from clear.
BUILDING a business on strong personal relationships has proved a successful formula for the owners of West Perth-based Fiori Coffee, who recently received a national accolade for their coffees.
THE aged care industry has warned that Western Australia is heading into dangerous territory, with only a quarter of the 1,300 bed licences recently made available by the federal government expected to be taken up.
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BHP Billiton is the world's biggest mining company so it was fitting it was BHP that decisively marked the end of the five-year global resources boom this week.
SOME of the state's largest greenhouse gas emitters have called for a moderate introduction of the emissions trading scheme to protect the country's emissions-intensive, trade-exposed industries.
FISHING and pearling group MG Kailis Holdings Pty Ltd slipped into the red in the past financial year after a combination of poor economic factors and isolated catchery issues hit the Fremantle-based company.
SOUTH African-owned engineering consultancy TWP Australia is the latest company to lay off Perth staff, admitting to shedding workers due to decisions by clients in an environment where some project work is stalling.
As the new state premier approaches his first 100 days in power, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA will be holding a corporate luncheon to hear Colin Barnett (right) speak of his government’s go
THE controversy over lead exports from Esperance may have attracted intense public focus over the past two years, but a potentially larger commercial issue that remains unresolved is the future of bulk nickel concentrate exports.
PREMIER Colin Barnett is known to be fond of big, regional projects that offer sweeping vision and the prospect of unlocking value for future generations.
Treasurer Troy Buswell has indicated an end to Western Australia's revenue boom, while releasing budget data showing a sharp fall in the state's surplus.
Around 47 ABC Learning childcare centres will remain open in Western Australia next year while the future of a further 43 is up for review, receiver Chris Honey of McGrathNicol says.
Privately-owned Talison Minerals said some 200 jobs will be lost as it suspends work at its Pilbara located Wodgina mine, the worlds largest tantalum operation.
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Finland-based company Poyry has been awarded more than $5 million worth of engineering work for Woodside Petroleum's Pluto liquefied natural gas project.
Regional power supplier Horizon Power has entered into a 20-year deal with a Canadian company to build a gas-fired power station in the state's north to meet the growing energy needs in the Pilbara.
The owner of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline says it has saved $55 million on current expansion works, which will start operating early next month.
Several lobby groups from across the country have expressed concern over the Rudd government's introduction of its new industrial relations bill, which has been backed by the federal opposition.
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Yilgarn Infrastructure has continued its rearguard bid for a slice of the planned Oakajee port and rail project, claiming today that its Chinese partners would not work directly with the government's preferred bidder.
