Perth’s largest insurance broker is preparing to consolidate its staff across two offices following a merger earlier this year, as one of its main competitors readies for a major transition.
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe believes the nation's economy may have reached a "gentle turning point", paving the way for growth to pick up again next year.
Ronald Bower, the former sole principal of Perth-based Corser & Corser Lawyers, has been removed from the roll of legal practitioners, after the Supreme Court of Western Australia upheld the Legal Profession Complaints Committee’s decision.
EY has named Nick Tana as its Champion of Entrepreneurship at the 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year Western Region awards, while Jim Fitzgerald, Iris Smit and Daniel Morrison were among the seven other winners in Western Australia.
Oil jumped more than two per cent overnight on expectations that falling prices could lead to production cuts, coupled with a steadying of the yuan currency after a week of turmoil spurred by an escalation in US-China trade tensions.
Gold edged down overnight as stock markets recovered, the US dollar strengthened and traders locked in profits after bullion surged past $US1,500 to a more than six-year high in the previous session.
Bunnings has signed a heads of agreement with M/Group, under which Bunnings will relocate from its existing Albany premises to over 14,000 square metres of new space located at MGroup's Chester Pass Mall in the coastal town.
AGL Energy is set to continue its rapid expansion into the WA market, after it struck a deal to purchase WA’s third-largest electricity retailer, Perth Energy, for up to $93 million.
Nearly 30 hectares of Black Cockatoo foraging habitat and three priority wetlands will be impacted by the Thornlie-Cockburn link rail project, according to environmental documents.
This year’s Homelessness Week brought together business, government and not-for-profits to figure out how to meet Australia’s affordable and social housing needs.
Canadian company Stantec has disclosed it paid C$135.8m ($147 million) for Perth-based Wood & Grieve Engineers, which it acquired in March, nearly 60 years after the Perth-based company was established.
The $2 billion carbon capture and storage facility at Chevron’s Gorgon LNG plant has entered operation, more than three years after first gas was shipped from Barrow Island.
Vicinity Centres’ Ellenbrook Central will undergo a $63 million expansion featuring an additional 20 retailers, including a new Kmart, with Doric to commence construction this month.
AMP has posted a $2.29 billon first-half loss on the back of a $2.35 billion impairment ahead of a large-scale overhaul of its slimmed down operations.
Oil prices tumbled nearly five per cent overnight after an unexpected build in US crude stockpiles and on fears of slowing demand but halved their losses in post-settlement trade on talk that Saudi Arabia was mulling options to halt crude's descent.
Gold soared more than two per cent overnight to breach the $US1,500 ceiling for the first time in more than six years as investors rushed to safe havens, spooked by a host of uncertainties including US-China trade and a slowing global economy.
Galaxy Resources said it expects to record a non-cash impairment charge of between $US150 million ($222 million) and $US185 million ($274 million) for the first half of 2019, reinforcing the current bleak conditions in the lithium sector.
Western Power is seeking an order in the Supreme Court of Western Australia to recover its costs from a class action following the Parkerville bushfire in 2014.
West Perth-based Serpentine Technologies is seeking to raise $7 million to fund its acquisition of K-TIG and enable growth of the company’s welding-as-a-service business model.
The attributes needed to build a good working relationship are the same in school settings as they are in business, says Wesfarmers chairman Michael Chaney.
