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Wesfarmers has made a $1.5 billion indicative offer for rare earths miner Lynas Corporation, its first takeover bid since its ill-fated $705 million purchase of Homebase in the UK in February 2016.

Australian shares have defied predictions of an opening rise as the energy and financial sectors dip amid lingering global growth fears.

WA’s Cyclone Veronica smashes billion-dollar hole in ore exports

Oil prices are mixed as concerns about a slowdown in global economic growth lingered, offset by the prospect of tighter US crude supply.

Gold prices have risen to a more than three-week high, helped by a weaker dollar and as worries over global economic growth pushed investors into safe-haven assets.

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The Australian stock market has recorded its worst session in 12 weeks amid fears of a worldwide economic slowdown.

National Australia Bank has scrapped a contentious program under which people including gym instructors and hairdressers were paid commissions for loans they pitched to their customers.

Sandfire Resources has announced an earn-in and joint venture option agreement with ASX-listed White Rock Minerals for a stake of up to 70 per cent in the multi-commodity Red Mountain project in central Alaska.

Airlines for Australia and New Zealand (A4ANZ) says the Productivity Commission’s draft report into Australia’s airports, released in January, falls well short of what should be expected from the commission.

Dacian Gold has lowered its full-year production forecast at its Mt Morgans gold project by up to 16 per cent, due to an equipment shortage at the mine.

Shares in Nuheara fell by as much as 27 per cent today after the UK’s National Health Service removed the company's IQbuds Boost hearing bud from its hearing aid category.

Jupiter Mines has tapped Hartleys to act as a corporate adviser, as the company re-evaluates its Central Yilgarn iron ore projects in light of improved iron ore market conditions.

Westpac is setting aside a further $260 million for customer remediation, taking its total to $659 million with fees-for-no-service refunds yet to come.

The Australian stock market is on track for its worst session in 12 weeks as the big four banks, the major miners and the energy sector continue to weigh amid a wider slump.

Polling reveals the biggest issue in WA’s key seats

Gold prices are up as weak economic data from the euro zone exacerbates fears of a global slowdown, weighing on risk sentiment and putting bullion on track for its best week in nearly two months.

Oil prices have fallen about two per cent as focus shifts to a lack of progress in US-China trade talks and as grim manufacturing data from Germany and the US reignited fears of a slowdown in the global economy and oil demand.

Australian shares have finished the week with a rally led by the big banks and market heavyweight CSL.

To mark the launch of BDO’s 2019 remuneration report, Business News spoke to three leading executive search consultants in Perth about market trends

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Asher Fisch has been keenly aware of the need to lift the public profile and reputation of the WA Symphony Orchestra since he became its artistic leader five years ago.

Over 99 per cent of Doray Minerals' shareholders have voted in favour of the company’s proposed $615 million merger with fellow locally-based gold miner Silver Lake Resources.

Digital healthcare agency Curve Tomorrow has expanded into Perth through the acquisition of Progressive Medical.

Bremer Bay-based 888 Abalone has accused Ocean Grown Abalone of breaching a supply agreement by planning a future development for a hatchery.

Asian LNG spot prices have dropped more than 50 per cent in recent months as supply growth overwhelmed strong demand, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Telstra will build 23 of the 26 new mobile base stations and small cells to be delivered in Western Australia, as part of the fourth round of a government initiative to improve mobile coverage in regional and remote communities.

Shares in St Barbara have fallen 30 per cent after the company said it would have to keep using trucking to extract gold from its flagship Gwalia project, due to ventilation issues it discovered at the underground mine.

More affordable housing will soon be available to some struggling Australians, with a federal agency offering community housing providers $315 million worth of loans at cheaper-than-average rates.

Worn down by three years of indecision in London, European Union leaders have grudgingly offered the UK more time to ease itself out of the bloc, delaying by several weeks - but not eliminating - the threat of a chaotic British exit.

Australian shares have moved higher as healthcare shares led a broad rally on the last day of the trading week.