January brought a major reduction in the Western Australian unemployment rate, down 0.4 points to 5.9 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, with a record number of women in jobs.
Automotive Holdings Group has won regulatory approval for the sale of its Covs Parts business after agreeing to retain four regional stores, and has also expanded its east coast operations through another acquisition in Melbourne.
Telstra is on track to hit its annual financial guidance despite the telecommunications giant posting a flat first half net profit amid intense competition.
US stocks tallied their third straight session of gains on Wednesday, led by energy shares as oil prices jumped, while better-than-expected economic data helped allay growth fears.
The Australian dollar is stronger with the greenback falling amid news the US Federal Reserve has been concerned about global uncertainty and market volatility hitting the American economy.
Gold has held on to earlier gains and snapped three days of losses, after minutes of the US Federal Reserve's latest meeting showed policymakers considered changing their planned path of interest rate hikes in 2016.
Southern Cross Electrical Engineering says it has won $20 million in new contracts and extensions since the start of the year, including a contract for work at BHP Billiton's Jimblebar iron ore mine in the Pilbara.
Gold and nickel miner Independence Group has posted a first-half loss of $78 million on the back of impairments and the acquisition of Sirius Resources late last year.
Almost 80 contract variations worth more than $81 million tripled the cost of a Department of Health central computing services contract, with issues including more than 60 per cent of data racks going unused, the auditor general revealed today.
The controversial Perth Freight Link has been put on Infrastructure Australia's list of high priority projects that would improve living standards and productivity, as part of a 15-year national plan released today.
Sydney-based GrainCorp has emerged as a cornerstone investor in a bid to corporatise and list CBH Group, through a complex deal that would deliver up to $1 billion in cash plus share
Iron ore miner Mount Gibson Iron has booked another half-year loss, but it's a substantial improvement on its performance in the previous year, despite recording a $23.6 million impairment.
Property syndicator APiL says it only took a matter of days to raise the equity required to buy Ballajura Central shopping centre from Charter Hall REIT.
Northern Star Resources says it will consider the sale of its Plutonic gold mine near Meekatharra after receiving a number of unsolicited offers from interested parties.
Energy giant Woodside Petroleum has reported a sharp fall in profit on the back of writedowns and says now is not the time to be reckless as it mulls over the future of its key Browse project.
Global equity markets rallied on Tuesday as investors engaged in bargain hunting and shrugged off a downturn in oil prices after hopes for an agreement among top producers to freeze output faded.
Gold has fallen for the third straight session, as global equity markets and the US dollar rose, depressing interest in gold as a safe-haven asset and taking it further below last week's one-year high.
Wall Street minted its second straight session of solid gains on Tuesday, as investors snatched up beaten-down consumer discretionary, industrial and tech shares.
A public sector wage freeze, amalgamations of major departments and a reform of health would be key moves to fix the state government's worsening debt position, according to Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA's pre-budget draft submission.
The Lions Eye Institute is developing a study aimed at ameliorating high rates of short sightedness among Asians, while at the same time attracting more overseas students to Western Australia's universities.
Prominent Labor MP and former resources minister Gary Gray has dropped another bombshell, announcing last night he will retire at the next federal election, meaning all three of Labor's sitting mem
Local manufacturer Matrix Composites & Engineering lost a fifth of its value on the ASX today after announcing it had received a cancellation notice for two contracts worth a combined $US21.8 million ($A30.5 million).
