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US stocks ended down but well off the day's lows with worries over geopolitical risks dragging down sentiment as investors readied for the start of US earnings.

Gas majors resist PM's crisis callGas producers will argue the energy market regulator has it wrong on the risk of looming shortages on the east coast when they are hau

The Australian share market looks set to open slightly higher amid subdued trade in global markets ahead of the Easter holiday and brushing off concerns about military developments in Syria and North Korea.

Western Australian workers would have the most to lose of any state from a major downturn in China and the least to gain from a major growth in services exports, according to new modelling from Deloitte, but an increased openness to investment opportunities might bring an upside in both scenarios.

The share market remains at a two-year high after a third straight day of gains, thanks to strong demand for financial and energy companies.

Oil and gas explorer Transerv Energy is back looking for opportunities overseas after failing to achieve commercial success in Australia, announcing today a $4.9 million farm-in agreement over a producing operation in Canada.

The potential to create iconic developments at Elizabeth Quay may be proving a lure too attractive to resist for Malaysian developer Victor Goh.

Developers have a new avenue to sell vacant land in Western Australia, via a recent entrant into the increasingly crowded and competitive online property market.

Lithium Australia's $23.8 million takeover offer for lithium-focused rival Lepidico looks set to fall short, with the bidder lifting its stake to only 18.28 per cent a week out from the offer's closing date.

Steven Goh is looking at selling his digital media business migme and/or migrating it to a foreign stock exchange as part of an ongoing struggle to pay its creditors.

OPINION: Despite a spike in iron ore prices, it will be the bigger, low-cost producers that rule the roost in the near to medium term.

Retail giant Woolworths could face a $100 million shareholder class action for allegedly failing to properly inform investors it would not meet its profit growth forecasts in the 2014-15 financial year.

The Australian Rugby Union has offered the Melbourne Rebels and the Western Force more time to state their case for Super Rugby survival beyond 2017.

Logistics and car retailer Automotive Holdings Group has acquired two dealerships in Victoria for $8.5 million plus stock and assets, in the same precinct where it is building a new Jaguar and Land Rover dealership.

After locking in a $US20 million ($A26 million) debt facility agreement last week, aspiring coal miner Paringa Resources has tapped investors for $53 million to fund development of its Poplar Grove mine in Kentucky.

Mining giant BHP Billiton has rejected a proposal by hedge fund Elliott Advisors to restructure its business by shedding its dual Australia-UK listing and spinning-off its petroleum business.

The Australian share market is flat as energy companies benefit from a rise in oil prices while a fall in iron ore weighs on the mining sector.

US stocks ended a choppy session slightly higher on Monday as gains in energy shares offset losses in financials ahead of quarterly corporate earnings later this week.

Gold prices have ended little changed as expectations that the Federal Reserve will press ahead with interest rate rises offset concerns over political tensions in North Korea and the Middle East.

PM to push security ties with IndiaMalcolm Turnbull has used a visit to New Delhi to forge closer security ties and make Australia the number one educa

The Australian dollar has crept higher against its US counterpart to a slither above 75 US cents.

Oil has risen toward $US56 a barrel, supported by another shutdown at Libya's largest oilfield over the weekend and geopolitical tensions following last week's US missile strike on Syria.

Two student accommodation projects in Northbridge have moved closer to being built, after Devwest Group applied for approval to repurpose Telstra's headquarters, and Stirling Capital lodged paperwork for early works at its Stirling Street proposal.

An international hedge fund holding 4.1 per cent of the shares in BHP Billiton's UK-listed stock wants the global miner to scrap its dual listing in Australia and the UK and spin-off its US petroleum business for listing on the New York share market.

Doubt has been cast over a wave of proposed apartment and hotel developments, with a patchy sales market forcing developers to apply for extensions to planning approvals for hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of projects.

The Australian share market has hit its highest level in two years amid investor optimism after events in Syria did not escalate and a range of other positive economic developments.

OPINION: A top-down, inflexible approach to policy change keeps failing.

A research collaboration between CoreLogic and ratings agency Moody's has predicted a turnaround in Perth's depressed property market this year, with a 2.8 per cent rise in detached house values foreshadowed.

Iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has paid a $25,000 fine to the Department of Environment Regulation over a discharge accident in 2015.

Former Australian Wheat Board chairman Trevor Flugge has been fined $50,000 and barred from managing corporations for five years, after he was convicted in December of breaching his duties as a director while the company was making questionable payments to the government of Iraq.

Business News sat down to lunch at Julio's with the small business commissioner, David Eaton.

The new chief executive of HBF believes his international experience will help the not-for-profit health fund grow and prosper in the current challenging market conditions.