The Australian share market has opened higher following overnight gains on Wall St where the US Federal Reserve hinted it would not raise interest rates.
Gold prices have risen, after minutes from the Federal Reserve's September meeting showed the central bank expressing concern about a stronger US dollar and weak economic growth overseas.
Wall Street stocks finished with large gains on Wednesday after traders viewed new Federal Reserve meeting minutes as a sign the US central bank will remain dovish on monetary policy.
Exploration firm Energia Minerals says it has received shareholder approval to place $6 million towards its flagship Gorno zinc project in Italy, with pre-development activities planned to begin within six weeks.
Perth-based marine farming company Cell Aquaculture has cancelled a deal with Noble Rate to buy its Roxy Casino in Cambodia after it failed to source skilled workers and keep up with ongoing reporting procedures.
The death of 174 sheep, believed to be from Western Australia, on an export cargo plane due to a ventilation failure is being investigated by Singapore Airlines.
The huge rise in employment in August and the spike in the jobless rate a month earlier didn't actually happen - the Australian Bureau of Statistics intends to revise most of it away.
Perth-based contractor and surveyor OTOC has obtained approval for an $8.1 million debt facility from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, on top of an $8.2 million facility it was awarded from the CBA last year.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has agreed to release $2.2 million into the hands of about 45,000 of its customers who had money left on expired CBA travel money cards.
The International Monetary Fund expects Australia will have the worst jobless rate in the Asia-Pacific region, bar the Philippines, over the next two years.
US stocks have finished sharply lower after the International Monetary Fund trimmed its global growth forecast while Germany posted a second straight day of disappointing economic data.
Oil prices have sunk amid concerns about slowing economic growth, with WTI dropping to a 17-month low on expectations of a rise in US crude-oil supplies.
Vacancy across Perth's suburban office markets contracted slightly over the past six months, in sharp contrast to the CBD commercial property vacancy rate, which has blown out since the middle of last year.
Stavely Minerals has secured a $2 million share subscription agreement with its contracted drilling services company, Titeline Drilling, under which Stavely can partly pay its monthly drilling bill in lieu of Titeline's share subscription payment.
