Property developer Stockland says earnings will fall by at least 10 per cent in the 2012/13 financial year because of the severely weakened housing market.
US markets registered their best gains so far this month on good earnings reports from Mattel, Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson, as Citigroup rose 1.6 per cent after the shock resignation of its
The woman at the helm of Barrick Gold’s Granny Smith mine in the Yilgarn has been named Western Australia’s Business Woman of the Year in the 2012 Telstra awards.
The private sector is set to play a bigger role in providing traditional public infrastructure in Western Australia after the state government named a preferred consortium for the design, construct
The Nine Network has reportedly staved off administration, with lenders agreeing on a debt-for-equity deal where two US hedge funds and investment bank Goldman Sachs will take a stake in the broadc
Police Minister Liza Harvey says $26.5 million for the force's annual budget has been clawed back, despite earlier saying it was "pointless" fighting public sector cuts.
The Australian share market has closed slightly higher after easing back from an earlier peak, with investors encouraged by a positive lead from United States markets and prospects of another cut t
Engineering and project services group Clough has won a $10 million contract to support exploration works at the Morobe Mining joint venture’s Wafi-Golpu project in Papua New Guinea.
Perth-based explorer Hot Chili has launched a $35.5 million capital raising to fund development at its Productora copper-gold-molybdenum project in Chile.
Perseus Mining has continued to prosper in the notoriously risky West African sector, passing the 12-month mark since it started production at its gold mine in Ghana.
Six weeks after announcing a dramatic slowdown in its growth plans, iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group says its stalled Kings project could resume later this year and be in production as early a
The Colin Barnett-led state government looks set to pick up seats in the March election, which could end the Liberal-National party coalition formed in 2008, a political commentator says.
If Western Australia’s iron ore miners thought they had seen the worst of the price slump which sent shockwaves through their industry two months ago they had better think again because “the mother
Businesses are taking advantage of lower interest rate cuts and seeking out fresh credit, particularly in the asset finance sector where inquiries reached the best level since the global financial
US stocks have scored solid gains as investors digest upbeat retail sales data and better-than-expected earnings from Citigroup that helped lift financial stocks.
The Australian dollar is half a cent lower, failing to hold on to the weekend gains that came after the announcement of a surge in Chinese exports, which rose 9.9 per cent in 12 months to September
