In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss shopping centre expansions, decentralising government agencies, apartment battles, asbestos dramas, and lithium heads our corporate
Treasurer Mike Nahan has said encouraging private investment in the Pilbara electricity grid could reduce its excess capacity and also energy prices in the north west, at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia lunch today.
Expectations of more economic stimulus from central banks and better-than-expected Chinese economic growth figures have helped lift the Australian share market to its highest level in 11 months.
House prices are expected to continue falling in Western Australia, with a survey of property professionals showing sentiment in WA is by far the worst of any state.
Little Creatures co-founder Howard Cearns' penchant for placing himself ahead of the curve has taken a fresh turn, with his newest venture recently opening its cellar door to the public.
Medical dermatology company Botanix Pharmaceuticals has enjoyed healthy gains on its first day of trading on the ASX, after completing a reverse takeover of Bone Medical.
The largest shareholder in Metals X has sold a big line of stock and foreshadowed further sales, as the diversified miner announced plans to invest $15 million developing its Fortnum gold project.
The state government plans to cancel a new environmental review of the controversial Roe 8 highway extension project after winning a legal appeal today, but it remains unclear when contracts for the project will be awarded.
Financial stocks have led the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials to record highs after JPMorgan's strong quarterly results, while upbeat economic data cemented bets that the current rally on Wall Street can chug along.
Oil prices have risen close to two per cent as traders cover short positions a day after crude futures were hammered by data showing weak US fuel demand in a busy summer driving season that heightened fears about a global oil glut.
The belief that the public can consume its way to happiness has been the prevailing doctrine (certainly in the Western world) for more than a century. But does it work?
NBN Company has awarded contracts to six companies to deliver the national broadband network to homes and businesses in the Telstra hybrid-fibre coaxial network.
A long-awaited state government report on the future of remote indigenous communities doesn't overtly refer to closures controversially flagged in late 2014, but promises to direct funding towards 10 of the biggest.
LandCorp has released design guidelines for the redevelopment of Bassendean Oval, flagging development of up to eight storeys around the Swan Districts Football Club home ground.
Uranium company Berkeley Energia, chaired by Perth dealmaker Ian Middlemas, plans to spend $125 million developing a mine in Spain, with the expectation that demand for yellowcake will ramp up by 2018 when the mine opens.
The state government has flagged the possibility of a broad inquiry into the use of imported building materials after confirming today that roofing panels supplied by Chinese company Yuanda to Perth Children's Hospital contained asbestos.
Sandfire Resources has lodged a mining lease application for the development of its majority-owned Monty copper-gold project, located near its flagship DeGrussa mine.
Water Corporation will spend $232 million to double the capacity of its water recycling plant in Craigie, which is designed to boost Perth's drinking water supplies.
Moving state government departments out of Perth's central business district into regional and urban centres will have social benefits, according to Environment Minister Albert Jacob, as the government announced today the shift of 800 staff to a Primewest development in Joondalup.
