Oil prices have skidded to their lowest level in nearly seven years, hurting the shares of major oil companies on Wall Street as a global glut showed no signs of abating, while European stocks benefited from a weaker euro.
Gold has fallen more than one per cent from the prior session's three-week high, after the US dollar gained from Friday's upbeat US jobs data that reinforced expectations the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next week.
A Western Australian charity focused on improving the lives of Aboriginal children through exercise and nutrition programs has hired staff and increased the amount of work it’s doing in several schools, following a major funding increase.
Sydney-based mobile app Swift has won this year’s OzAPP Awards for its logistics dispatch service, which can be used to easily route deliveries and reduce transport costs.
CBH Group has confirmed half a tonne of canola grain was spilt into Cockburn Sound last month, as Fisheries experts continue to probe why more than 1,500 dead fish have washed up in Perth's south.
Stan Perron’s vast private business group has reported a solid lift in revenue and profit, with strong returns from land development projects and international equities offsetting write-downs on the Central Park office tower and its iron ore royalties.
The recent approval for an estimated $450 million expansion of Westfield Whitford City has added to a long line of shopping centre redevelopments proposed in Perth, although ongoing economic uncertainty is casting doubt on how many will actually go ahead.
State government-owned gold refiner Gold Corporation has had its longstanding national monopoly broken, with the accreditation of Sydney-based ABC Refinery by the London Bullion Market Association.
Sydney-based Pulse Health is set to enter the Western Australian market for the first time, with plans to buy the Waikiki Private Hospital and the Westminster day surgery.
A chance discovery many researchers may have dismissed as an error has brought about a series of surprising and rewarding events for University of Western Australia PhD student Callum Ormonde.
DEXUS Property Group has made a conditional, non-binding $2.5 billion cash and scrip bid to merge with the ASX-listed Investa Office Fund, which has a nationwide portfolio of assets that includes t
Iluka Resources has terminated its long-running takeover discussions with Ireland-based Kenmare Resources, after being advised that Kenmare’s major shareholder would not support the planned acquisition.
SPECIAL REPORT: Newly appointed chief executives in Western Australia are mostly receiving lower salaries than their predecessors, but retaining plenty of upside through incentive schemes, a survey of nearly 40 new CEO pay packages has found.
SPECIAL REPORT: The 2015 CEO salary survey has some surprising names near the top of the list while some of the state’s best chief executives are unexpectedly low down.
Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial has announced a $715 million takeover bid for Australian contractor Broadspectrum, which was formerly known as Transfield Services.
Tax breaks for risk-taking businesses and a boost in science spending lie at the heart of a four-year $1.1 billion innovation package designed to drive an "ideas boom" in Australia.
Motor vehicles sales in Western Australia for the year to November are down 8.5 per cent on the same period last year, with sports utility vehicles the only part of the market that held up.
Farmers in Pemberton are hoping to add a new ingredient to the South West town’s successful business recipe, pinning their hopes on growing the market for finger limes.
Australian shares have opened more than one per cent higher after US jobs data at the end of last week gave further support to the idea of a Federal Reserve rate hike this month.
Gold has risen more than two per cent to its highest in nearly three weeks after a US non-farm payrolls report, seen as likely to pave the way for the US Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this month, failed to aid the US dollar's ascent.
CBH Group has cut its estimate of Western Australia’s grain harvest for the second time in five weeks, with the farmers’ cooperative now tipping it will handle 12.5 million tonnes in the current se
Rapidly growing online booking company HealthEngine has gained backing from newly established private equity group Go Capital and carsales.com.au founder Greg Roebuck in its latest $5 million capit
Approval has been granted for the first in a series of state government asset sales, with legislation to sell Market City passing parliament after a debate that went until almost dawn.
