BOORAGOON-BASED recruitment firm Total Staffing Solutions has given a rare public insight into the challenges facing small and medium sized businesses trying to secure finance in the current market.
Thirty Western Australian mining services companies were in Indonesia last week for the annual Ozmine Conference, which aims to align Australian suppliers with the Indonesian mining industry, delivering positive results for those involved.
SHARES in Fortescue Metals Group fell as much as 14 per cent in trade as the miner called off its widely mooted $500 million capital raising to institutions.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA with the support of the WA government's Department of Industry and Resources.
COLES owner Wesfarmers Ltd has completed a retail stock offering, securing commitments totalling $1.8 billion from investors.After scaling back, Wesfarmers says it expects to raise around $1.7 billion
THE changing face of Perth's jazz music scene was highlighted this month by the approval of redevelopment plans for one historic venue coinciding with the opening of another.
Sales activity in the Perth CBD commercial market is gathering pace, as some real estate investment trusts look to sell assets and private investors scour for bargains.
CHEVRON says it is a step closer to commercialising its Wheatstone project after exploration of two natural gas fields showed there were enough resources to support a two-train development.
A Treasury official will help the state's police department to identify savings in line with the government's 3 per cent efficiency-based savings amid claims the Police Minister is not doing his job properly.
Eight mining deals done in Western Australia have featured in the top 250 deals completed globally in 2008 as the value of transactions in the country fell 11 per cent.
Mirabela Nickel has secured a $US150 million ($A238 million) facility from a consortium of lenders to fund development works at its Santa Rita nickel project in Brazil.
Shares in Catalpa Resources have jumped as high as 56 per cent as the company executes a $67.5 million project financing deal with Macquarie Bank and plans to launch a $30 million capital raising.
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One of Western Australia's oldest brokers, Mortgage Force, has agreed to merge with Sydney-headquartered Smartline to create an entity with a loan portfolio worth more than $10 billion.
Premier Colin Barnett continued talking up Western Australia's economy in the face of further bad global news, but also issued a warning that the state had to be treated fairly by the rest of the nation.
Perth-based Tasman Resources has demanded that former joint venture partner WCP Resources pay $713,848 after it declared force majeure on the Lake Torrens project in South Australia.
Construction company Boral plans to sell and leaseback 11 of its Australian properties, including a landholding in Bunbury, as part of its ongoing management of its land assets.
Corporate events organisers Gregory Millar and John Webb have been found to have engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct over the promotion of several industry exhibitions by a Federal Court in Perth.
Brookfield Multiplex has been appointed as the managing contractor for stage one of the Fiona Stanley Hospital under an innovative contract by the state government.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has left the official interest rate at 3.25 per cent, bringing a temporary halt to a series of rate cuts by the central bank that started in September last year.
Shares in Albidon have slumped as much as 43 per cent as the nickel miner places its Munali operation on care and maintenance and lays off some 350 employees and contractors.
Commodity exports are forecast to fall by 17 per cent in the 2010 financial year but farm export earnings are expected to rise over the next two years, a report for the nation's commodities forecaster says.
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