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Leading CEOs form climate change club

ASX investors can almost claim gains for 2020, after the share market closed within a point of where it started the year.

CIMIC to pay small suppliers faster after ACCC interest

Gold stocks were sold heavily today after an overnight fall in the price of the yellow metal but strength in other sectors saw the ASX close solidly higher.

WA’s workforce may be looking at the future of work with rose-tinted glasses, according to new research from the Committee for Perth.

PM: China needlessly hurting ties

Australia's share market has closed higher to start the trading week with energy and mining proving the best of the industry sectors.

Iron ore miners dig in for fight over capacity at Port Hedland

An early end to South Australia's coronavirus lockdown was not enough to inspire investors in a lacklustre day on the Australian share market, but they finished the week happy.

The ratings agency Moody's has downgraded Crown's credit rating, just as a regulatory inquiry hears the gaming giant is unable to govern itself.

Independent senator Rex Patrick has called for charges against a military lawyer who blew the whistle on alleged war crimes by Australian troops to be dropped.

WA pays business to consume power.

Better than expected jobs figures have been followed by a turnaround for the ASX, which closed higher, but an industry analyst believes investors took their buying cue from elsewhere.

Forrest’s ‘bizarre’ green power pacts with slave-tainted nations

A six-day stay-at-home coronavirus order to South Australians has briefly troubled investors, who still helped the Australian share market close higher.

Australia looks set to enjoy solid economic growth for the rest of what has been a traumatic year, rebounding smartly from the first recession in nearly three decades.

Nahan warns McGowan on business links.

While there are more women on the boards of Australia’s 200 largest listed companies than there were at this time last year, there remains substantial room for improvement.

Adelaide's troubling coronavirus cluster has officially grown to 20 cases as South Australia reported five new infections today.

Investors had a mostly glitch-free day on the Australian share market and the indices closed slightly higher after enthusiasm over the development of a coronavirus vaccine.

UPDATED: Australia's share market was a little higher but the market operator has found another problem with data.

PM urges states to lift SA border bans after latest outbreak.

Australia's share market finished higher but trade was suspended for most of the day after the introduction of a new trading system did not go as planned.

Taxpayers, CSL to build vaccine plant

Australia's shares closed little changed but did better than those of many major markets, dragged down by a poor lead from the US on coronavirus infections.

China rift ‘threatens oil, gas, iron ore’.

Investors have had just their second November session of losses on the Australian market after momentum created by hope for a coronavirus vaccine eased.

The Nationals WA leader Mia Davies says allegations made by her former deputy Jacqui Boydell of bullying and threats are being taken very seriously.

Telecommunications giant Telstra will undergo its biggest restructure in 24 years, splitting its business into three separate legal entities.

China fallout hits Woodside gas sale plan

James Packer is not to blame for the failures of Crown Resorts, his lawyers have told an inquiry into whether the gaming giant is suitable to run a new Sydney casino.

Australia's share market has closed at its highest level since February after another buying frenzy, based on belief a coronavirus vaccine is on its way.