Oil prices have fallen per cent after US crude inventories rose for a seventh week, showing that the market is still struggling to ease oversupply despite many producers' efforts to rein in production.
Gold has reached its highest in 3-1/2 months as the dollar fell to a one-week low after the new US Treasury chief poured cold water on the "Trumpflation trade" that had boosted the greenback this year.
In this Business News podcast, Mark Pownall and Dan Wilkie discuss election promises, South Perth, mining raisings, Richard Goyder and mining services.
Stockbroker and funds manager Euroz has beaten expectations for its interim profit result, which was achieved on the back of an improved performance of its Euroz Securities business and increase in the share prices of its listed investment companies.
Premier Colin Barnett has rejected calls to release the latest costings for the Roe 9 stage of the contentious Perth Freight Link project, saying it would undermine the tender process.
West Perth-based Automotive Holdings Group has predicted the state's automotive market will remain challenging in the short term, as the company reported a 20 per cent fall in net profit after tax in the six months to December.
The Australian share market is lower, pulled back for a second successive session by significant falls among the big miners, with weakness among the big four banks further prodding the retreat.
There's been a big rise in the exercise of contract termination for convenience clauses in the past four years, according to Jackson McDonald lead partner of projects, infrastructure and construction Basil Georgiou.
OPINION: The polls appear to be tightening ahead of next month's election, with renewed interest also in which minor parties may hold the balance of power.
The local business that undertook one of the nation's largest switchable glass projects as part of the development of Perth Children's Hospital is now planning to target overseas markets.
Finbar Group's new plan for its Civic Heart site in South Perth will have 74 fewer apartments and an end value 45 per cent lower than its original proposal, while it will be delivered a year after the first project was scheduled to be complete, the developer has revealed.
Private sector wages growth of just 0.1 per cent in Western Australia in the three months to December, matched with recent unemployment figures, suggests the state's spluttering post-boom recovery has some way to run.
ANALYSIS: Colin Barnett has taken a political risk in expressing his view that the Fair Work Commission's historic decision to cut Sunday penalty rates for pharmacy, fast food, hospitality and retail workers should also apply to Western Australian award workers.
Subiaco-based lithium explorer MetalsTech has enjoyed steady gains on its first day of trading on the ASX, after completing a $4.3 million initial public offering.
Perth-based Monadelphous Group has received a number of contracts with multiple clients including Fortescue Metals Group, BHP Billiton and Chevron, with the work worth a combined $120 million.
Offpeak Games is a virtual reality (VR) games developer. It has released two VR games, Valiant, a medieval mounted combat multiplayer game, and Arcane, a fantasy wave shooter game.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation is hoping to put an end to decades of fracking in Western Australia, if the party wins seats in the upcoming state election.
Oil prices have risen but gains have been pared after US government data shows a seventh straight build in crude stocks, suggesting high inventories could undermine OPEC's move to cut output.
Gold prices have lifted 1 per cent to a three-and-a-half-month high after minutes from the latest Federal Reserve policy meeting further dampen expectations for an interest rate rise in March, lowering US bond yields and pressuring the US dollar.
Land developer Peet says it doesn't expect conditions to improve in Western Australia in 2017, as it continues to push its long-running strategy to focus its operations outside of its home state.
Shares in Atlas Iron fell 9.3 per cent today despite the company returning to after-tax profit in the six months to December on the back of higher volumes and a lift in the iron ore price.
Scientists at Edith Cowan University's Electron Science Research Institute have received a $1.6 million federal grant to enable further development of a new type of solar glass that offers significant potential for agriculture.
The share market has lost ground on another busy day of company earnings reports, as a fall in commodity prices weighed on the big miners, and Rio Tinto traded without its latest dividend.
Business representatives have welcomed a move to ease Sunday and public holiday penalty rates for hospitality and retail workers, saying it would be particularly beneficial for reducing unemployment in Western Australia.
WA Labor has promised the state's sixth-largest town, Albany, would become fully powered by renewable energy – if elected – under a $19.5 million funding commitment with Carnegie Clean Energy.
A growing market for government consulting, and the rising impact of regulation on business, have prompted mid-tier accounting firm BDO to recruit a former local chief of Australia's corporate watchdog, Jane Gouvernet.
