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Herman Cain has fared well in straw polls and is seen as a standout to take on Barack Obama.

Retired insolvency expert Geoff Totterdell, who has worked on some of the state’s best-known company collapses in a long career, has stepped into the job of overseeing development in the Peel region.

The friends and partners behind Sweetlips are always looking at how to improve their restaurants. Emily Morgan reports.

Real Estate Institute of WA chief executive Anne Arnold has been appointed to the board of aged-care provider, Southern Cross Care, which the business said would contribute to its strategy in deali

Setting up a second symphony orchestra in Perth is ambitious but for a convivial pair like Bourby Webster and Annalisa Oxenburgh it is an obvious choice for the city.

I never met him, but I knew him. I never talked to him, but he spoke to me often. I never saw him present his creations live, but my vision of him is burned into my brain.

Three years ago, Aston Recruitment managing director Chantal Haskett made the decision to quit her job at a large international recruitment agency and branch out on her own. 

It’s a cliche – business is a people game. And like many cliches, it’s true, but what does this mean in practice for your business?

A FEDERAL government employee superannuation fund is understood to be circling SAS Trustee Corporation’s half share in the blue-chip QV1 office tower in Perth’s sought-after CBD.

National retail chain Baby Bunting has set its sights on Perth’s competitive baby-wear sector after revealing plans to open its first two Western Australian stores before Christmas.

Nickel has become one of the analysts’ least preferred commodity exposures as WA companies battle costs and tumbling share prices.

The dramatic growth in seaborne trade has made ports politically and commercially valuable.

Agricultural exports are tipped to rebound and lift farmers’ incomes after they plumbed 10-year lows on the back of a dry spell.

Players have welcomed the implementation of the Knight review’s recommendations but some fear it favours universities.

Western Australia’s share of national exports has risen to 46 per cent and looks set to rise further.

FRUIT and dairy producer Harvey Fresh has topped the field in the state’s annual industry and export awards.Harvey Fresh took out the Premier’s award for excellence.

The Barnett government is living up to its promise to deliver more community infrastructure via public private partnerships, naming three short-listed consortiums to bid for a 350-bed prison develo

Western Australian companies reported the nation’s highest growth in 457 visa recruitment over the past 12 months, according to KPMG’s latest annual skilled migration survey.

Perth advertising agency 303 has merged with international firm Lowe in a deal giving the big partner 51 per cent of the firm.

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The Australian share market opened higher this morning as investors grow hopeful that measures to stem Europe's debt crisis are being finalised.

The Australian dollar rose after reports that France and Germany had agreed to boost Europe's rescue fund.

US stocks rallied Tuesday after a British newspaper reported that France and Germany were ready to sharply boost the eurozone's rescue fund in a bid to address the public debt crisis.

Australian shares closed sharply lower with local resources stocks hit hard, amid renewed pessimism over Europe's ability to manage its debt crisis.

Seven West Media has finalised a new $1.95 billion credit facility so it can steadily reduce debt.

The federal government's top finance bureaucrat has told a Senate hearing that a return to a budget surplus in 2012/13 remains the current plan.

Kerry Stokes probably doesn’t need an extra $500 million, but if anybody else wants to triple their money it might be time to join him on the share register of Iron Ore Holdings (IOH).

The central bank says it may be prepared to cut the cash rate if inflation looks as if it is under control, against a backdrop of deteriorating domestic and global economic conditions.

The Australian share market opened almost 1.5 per cent lower, reversing yesterday's gains, after German officials dampened optimism over the European bailout plan.

The Australian dollar has fallen more than one US cent as comments from Berlin dampen expectations an upcoming European Union (EU) summit will solve the eurozone's debt crisis.

US equity markets sank Monday after a three-week rally after a meeting of G20 finance chiefs failed to boost confidence that a solution to the eurozone debt crisis is near.

The Australian dollar has hit a one month high after finance ministers from the world's wealthiest nations vowed to stop the European debt crisis from spreading.