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Shares in West Perth-based Raiden Resources (previously SubZero Group) enjoyed strong gains today after they started trading on the ASX, following a two-year restructuring of the company and acquisition of a copper-gold project in Serbia.

Barnaby Joyce will step down as deputy prime minister and from cabinet on Monday, three weeks after it was revealed he had had an affair with a former media adviser.

The corporate watchdog has banned Perth-based financial adviser Philip Leake from providing financial services for the next five years after he was found to have given poor advice to a number of clients.

Perth-based Automotive Holdings Group has flagged a slight reduction in profit for the half year, but the company said it had noticed increased confidence in the Western Australian car market.

Woolworths' first-half profit jumped 37.6 per cent to $969 million after comparable food sales at its Australian supermarkets rose 4.9 per cent.

A couple of Perth businesses are leading the use of virtual reality in corporate training, with applications from the boardroom to a mine site.

A new book by Meerkats co-founder Mike Edmonds, Truth, Growth, Repeat, expounds a business philosophy influenced by four decades of advertising industry experience, good and bad.

The Australian share market has opened higher, buoyed by overnight gains on Wall Street and a steady flow of positive local earnings.

Qantas set to pay tax after strong result

The Australian dollar is up almost half a cent against a weakened US counterpart.

Oil prices have risen to two-week highs, boosted by data showing a surprise draw in US crude inventories and also by a drop in the US dollar.

Gold has snapped four sessions of losses as the US dollar has surrendered early gains, though the metal remained lower for the week to date and analysts say they expect trading to be rangebound.

Property groups Cedar Woods Properties and Peet have both reported increases in net profit after tax for the first half of the 2018 financial year.

The Variety Bash has defied the odds and reached a major milestone, and its organisers say there's plenty of road yet to travel.

The Perth company behind a new e-bike for city use plans to commercialise next year, despite bumps along the road.

The Australian share market has posted a modest rise as big gains for Qantas, Crown Resorts and Nine Entertainment were partly offset by big ex-dividend retreats for AGL Energy and Woodside Petroleum.

A local landscaping company has suspended trading and operations due to financial viability problems a fortnight after one of the state's biggest builders, Cooper & Oxley, went into administration.

Engineering contractor RCR Tomlinson has reported a big boost in profits for the half-year, propelled by a near doubling in revenue as the company increases its stake in the renewable energy sector

Hundreds of occupational licences and permits are to be reviewed by the state government's key economic regulator, with the potential to save consumers tens of millions of dollars.

Crown Resorts has posted a $192.4 million net profit for the half year, with earnings at the Perth arm of the company down on the previous year.

A review of the Southern Ports Authority released today has shone a mostly positive light on the three-way merger, with only minor concerns related to the implementation flagged in the report.

Gold miner Doray Minerals has raised $25 million to reduce debt and increase exploration at its Deflector project, which is located 160 kilometres east of Geraldton.

Strong ratings and a dominant share of the free-to-air TV revenue market have driven a 55 per cent increase in Nine Entertainment's half year underlying profit.

Qantas will return a further $378 million of capital to shareholders in the form of a buyback after the carrier lifted first-half profit 18 per cent to $607 million.

International investors are rotating their funds into commodities such as industrial metals, which could be good news for WA, and Kalgoorlie in particular.

Little things are important in government; they can be done easily, broadened if successful and quietly shelved if they fail.

The Australian share market has opened higher, shrugging off Wall Street's turnaround from strong gains to finish firmly in the red.

Boost to State from economic revival

The Australian dollar is little changed against its US counterpart which has again risen helped by buoyant short-term US Treasury yields.

The Australian share market looks set to open around half a per cent higher with Wall Street offering a positive lead despite some of its earlier strong gains ebbing closer to the close.

Oil prices are little changed ahead of data expected to show rising crude inventories in the United States and as the dollar has strengthened from last week's three-year lows.

Gold has dipped further, a day after its biggest daily slide in two-and-a-half months, but briefly bounced higher as the US dollar slipped for a short time after the release of minutes from the US Federal Reserve's January policy meeting.