Laing O'Rourke has announced a major contract win with construction and engineering group Bechtel at Chevron's Wheatstone liquefied natural gas project.
The Australian dollar marked time during the afternoon session after traders earlier pushed it to a fresh one-week high in response to brighter consumer confidence data.
Global miner Rio Tinto says it will concentrate on operating low-cost mines and selling non-performing assets after posting a full year net loss of almost billion for 2012.
Cleveland Mining has secured $7 million in fresh funding to advance exploration and sampling programs at its Premier and Mara Rosa gold projects in central Brazil.
Mineral Resources has booked a 22 per cent drop in half year net profit, on the back of a slump in iron ore prices over the second quarter of financial year 2013.
Labor's $3.4 billion Metronet rail project will be funded by relocating Perth's major stadium to Subiaco and scrapping state government funding earmarked for the mothballed Oakajee port projec
The supermarket price wars seem far from over, with Wesfarmers chief Richard Goyder looking to increase Coles' sales and cut costs further after reporting a higher first-half profit today.
Chinese government-owned CITIC has taken a 13 per cent stake in Alumina for $452 million, sending shares in the smelter investor to their highest level in almost a year.
Indian-owned engineering group Sembawang Australia has trumped Leighton Holdings' offer for Macmahon Holdings' construction arm, offering $35 million for the troubled business.
Engineering firm Downer EDI's first half profit has grown by 11 per cent and the company has maintained its expectation of improved underlying profit for the full year.
A collection of lacklustre earnings reports and in-line economic data have capped US stock gains, with the markets gaining no bump -- or loss -- from President Barack Obama's key policy speech.
The Australian share market closed at its highest level since 2008 as bank stocks soared on a better than expected profit from Commonwealth Bank (CBA).
Northern Star Resources has booked a half year profit increase of 78 per cent, after increasing production capacity at its Paulsens gold mine to more than 100,000 ounces per year.
The mining industry has urged state and federal governments to tread with caution over implementing recommendations from a parliamentary inquiry into fly-in, fly-out work practices, saying some of
The war of words over the cost of the state opposition's Metronet heavy rail plan has continued, with Transport Minister Troy Buswell claiming Labor has failed to account for “at least” $1 billion
