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Gold has extended its rally into the new year, touching late September highs on a softer US dollar, while spot palladium jumped to a record on fears of short supplies after soaring 57 per cent in 2017.

Oil prices have hit mid-2015 highs early on their first trading session for 2018, before dipping to settle slightly lower as major pipelines in Libya and the UK restart and US production soared to the highest level in more than four decades.

The Australian dollar is slightly lower against its US counterpart, which has fallen to a three-month low in its first trading session for 2018, but has plunged against the yen and the euro.

Perth-based TNG has commissioned Carnegie Clean Energy's subsidiary Energy Made Clean to evaluate renewable energy options to power its Mount Peake vanadium titanium project.

Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has been awarded a number of new commercial and public infrastructure contracts across Australia totalling more than $90 million, including $66 million of work at a new section of the Westmead Hospital in New South Wales.

The share market has posted its first fall for the week as selling in the financial and property sectors outweighed gains by energy producers, miners and retailers.

Shares in Sky and Space Global have soared after announcing it had secured a $US30 million ($40 million) contract for a Nigerian company to use its nanosatellite technology for the next five years.

The state government has today approved Sinosteel Midwest Corporation’s iron ore expansion project east of Geraldton, while simultaneously rejecting Mineral Resource’s planned iron ore mines in the Helena-Aurora Range, after the environmental watchdog had recommended both should be blocked.

Alister Yiap has explored a number of business models to find the best way to move his jewellery-meets-art into the hands of his admiring customers.

Sydney-based oil and gas company AWE has backed a revised $526 million takeover offer from Mineral Resources as the Perth-based mining outfit seeks to gain control of the Waitsia gas field in the Perth Basin.

Australian shares have lost ground in early trade after a strong run so far this week, as investors take cues from a choppy session on Wall Street overnight.

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Korean car maker Kia Motors will increase its offering at DVG Automotive Group dealerships in Midland and Morley after recent showroom upgrades worth more than $1 million.

After announcing yesterday a significant contract with Cross Yarra Partnership in Melbourne, Osborne Park-based Veris has today secured further surveying works contracts in the eastern states worth

The share market turned around a negative start to the day to edge higher, as miners, energy producers and several consumer-related stocks rose in value.

Lydon Hollitt is planning to shake-up property advertising with a new listing platform that matches active buyers and tenants with agents and vendors at minimal marketing cost.

Tech company Hazer Group has signed a binding agreement with Mineral Resources to develop a facility to produce synthetic graphite.

New research paints a more optimistic view of traditional retailers’ future following the local arrival of Amazon.

Kidman Resources has strengthened its board with the appointment of resources industry leader John Pizzey as chairman and Aaron Collernan as director.

Energy and infrastructure contracting group Valmec has secured $30 million in new construction contracts, including a 4 kilometre gas pipeline at Dacian Gold’s Mt Morgan project.

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Atlas Iron has struck a deal with lithium developer Pilbara Minerals to purchase up to 1.4 million tonnes of direct shipping lithium ore over the next 15 months.

It may still be early days, but Amazon’s arrival in Australia has yet to damage the numbers for some high-profile traditional retailers.

Australian shares have fallen off the 10-year highs achieved in the previous session, as the market follows Wall Street's negative cues.

An optometrist and a former mining equipment company executive are spearheading a Perth startup’s plans to disrupt the eyewear industry by allowing customers to try on, and buy, glasses virtually.

The share market has hit a fresh decade high thanks to strong commodity prices and positive leads from overseas markets.

Sydney-based gas company AWE has upgraded its Waitsia 2P reserves by 80 per cent, now ranking it in the top five largest gas fields ever discovered onshore in Australia.

MMA Offshore chairman Andrew Edwards has defended the timing of the company’s recent $97 million capital raising at its annual meeting today, saying the oil and gas firm needed a solution to its debt problems.

Base Resources has announced that it will purchase a mineral sands project in Madagascar for $US75 million ($100 million) and tap investors for $100 million to fund the acquisition.

Australian shares are higher this morning, with all sectors in positive territory and oil and iron ore companies particularly firmer following strong overnight leads and strengthening commodity prices.

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ASX-listed AnaeCo has gone into administration after Monadelphous Group terminated an $11.5 million contract with the waste technology company and a Chinese enterprise.