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The Australian share market is trading solidly higher after better-than-expected company earnings reports bolstered Wall Street's key indexes.

House wars: Labor to hit super fundsSelf-managed superannuation funds would be banned from borrowing money and foreign investors buying residential property face higher

The Australian dollar is modestly higher against its US counterpart with investors seemingly willing to take on greater risks.

Oil prices have ended mixed after a seesaw trading session, as investors weighed rising US production against geopolitical uncertainties and comments from leading Gulf oil producers that an extension to OPEC-led supply cuts was likely.

Gold has steadied after its biggest one-day drop in more than six weeks, with a retreat in the US dollar arresting the slide, though moves were muted as markets await the outcome of the looming French presidential election.

Thomas Building has won the contract for the construction of Griffin Group's 204 Walcott development in Menora. The building consists of 11 apartments, six offices, and a café.

National Storage REIT intends to acquire two properties in Perth for a combined $17 million while confirming plans to develop two further sites, believed to be at Yanchep and Martin.

Newly appointed chief executives in WA are on substantially lower salary packages compared with recent years, a Business News survey has found.

The Chinese company angling to buy a 50 per cent stake in the Kalgoorlie super pit has reportedly dropped the $US1.3 billion bid due to more rigid Chinese controls on capital outflows, while its bid to buy Southern Cross gold mine owner Hanking Australia has been completed.

The share market has broken a three session losing streak as investors returned to the major banks, and a telco sector where Telstra is facing new competition.

The evolution of The Western Australian Club's former premises at 101 St Georges Terrace is continuing, with Guylian Belgian Chocolates to open a cafe in the historic building next month.

The state government has taken control of the trouble-plagued Perth Children's Hospital to solve what it believes is the cause of the ongoing lead contamination problem.

OPINION: During the state election campaign, Mark McGowan said his government would repay the state's debt as though it were a home mortgage; now, unfortunately, he is experiencing the equivalent of mortgage stress, which comes with taking on too much debt without enough income to service it.

Troubled tech company 1-Page has announced its recently appointed chief executive, Peter Kent, has left the company along with co-founder Patrick Riley, ahead of a shareholder meeting in three weeks.

Carnegie Clean Energy has tripled the size of its capital raising to $18 million after accepting oversubscriptions from a share purchase plan and undertaking an additional placement.

E-commerce giant Amazon has confirmed it will launch its full retail offering in Australia and is inviting local retailers to sign up.

Woodside Petroleum has engaged contractors to develop concept options for an expansion of the Pluto LNG facility for consideration as early as mid-year, while reporting an 11 per cent drop in March quarter revenue on the back of adverse weather and inventory build up.

Mining giant Rio Tinto has made a sluggish start to the year, with first-quarter shipments and production of iron ore affected by bad weather in Western Australia.

The Australian stock market has opened higher following three consecutive negative sessions, buoyed by gains in financial, real estate and retail shares.

Oil has tumbled to a two-week low, after a surprising build in US petrol inventories and a rise in domestic crude output that is partially offsetting cutbacks by other countries trying to reduce a global glut.

Gold has fallen one per cent as the US dollar and stocks have gained, though tensions over North Korea and upcoming French and UK elections underpinned demand in the safe-haven asset.

How Turnbull saved Abbott's skinMalcolm Turnbull intervened personally during the final week of last year's election campaign to help ‘‘save'' Tony Abb

The Australian dollar is lower against its US counterpart which has retraced its losses from the previous session.

Plans by private company Bombora Natural Energy to join the ASX through the acquisition by Magnum Gas & Power have fallen through after the deal was terminated by mutual agreement.

The dramatic fall in the price of iron ore since the start of March could punch a $1.4 billion hole in the state's finances in the next financial year.

The share market has fallen for a third straight session, pulled back by weakness in the financial and energy sectors as geopolitical concerns continue to weigh on investor sentiment.

Local tech startup Zora Tech has soft-launched its first product to market, an online advertising platform that aims to better connect content creators, retailers and customers to what they want to see online.

ANALYSIS: The recent WWW2017 conference in Perth was a chance to hear some of the technology developments coming to the internet.

Parts of corporate Australia have attacked the federal government's axing of 457 immigration work visas, claiming it is a politically driven move and unfairly targets less than 1 per cent of the workforce.

Investment group Zeta Resources has announced plans to make an all-cash takeover offer for gold-focused Bligh Resources, competing with Saracen Mineral Holdings which had agreed to buy the target's core asset in February.

OPINION: Corporate events such as takeovers and break-up proposals do not always have a political edge to them, but when they involve BHP Billiton, once Australia's biggest company, politics are not far away (and neither is Western Australia).