Oil prices have fallen in volatile trade overnight and were weighed down by equity markets as China signalled readiness to escalate the trade war with the United States, stoking concerns that an ongoing stand-off could hurt demand.
Gold prices rose alongside other safe-haven assets overnight as the trade rift between the United States and China showed no sign of cooling, with investors fearing a global economic slowdown.
Five indigenous students are the inaugural recipients of the Dr Tracy Westerman Aboriginal Psychology Scholarship at Curtin University, with its patron, Western Australian governor Kim Beazley, officially launching the program at Government House.
Mirvac has launched a $750 million placement, with the property group eyeing the top end of its FY19 guidance and planning to lay the foundations for more success.
Recently released numbers show Western Australia’s net contribution to the the federation was a whopping $15.5 billion during the 2018 financial year, while also indicating a long running debate about federal health funding cuts in the state was off the mark.
Woodside Petroleum, Curtin University, Lendlease and Qantas are among a raft of prominent organisations to join the country’s big miners, major law firms and finance businesses in pledging support for the politically contentious Uluru statement.
Strike Energy has executed a $5 million sales option with Wesfarmers subsidiary CSBP, for up to 100 petajoules of gas from its half-owned West Erregulla project.
Multiplex has collaborated with local company TENSA Equipment to utilise an automated lifting device the construction giant believes could be a game changer for the industry.
This year's Perth Festival encouraged 7,300 tourists to visit Western Australia while box office sales increased 21 per cent from 2018, the festival’s impact report has shown.
Telstra has announced it will record $500 million in impairments in its 2019 financial year results on ageing data-storage assets and forecast higher restructuring costs this year as it expedites a plan to slash jobs.
US crude futures gained almost one per cent overnight after flooding throughout the midwest constrained crude flow from the main US storage hub in Cushing, Oklahoma.
Gold overnight slipped from the previous session's one-week peak, pulled down by a firm US dollar as the currency was the preferred safe-haven amid uncertainty over US-China trade tensions.
Black Swan State Theatre Company announced today its outgoing executive director Natalie Jenkins has already left the organisation while also disclosing her replacement, Danielle Norrish, may not hold the role permanently.
Western Power chief executive Guy Chalkley has been appointed to the network operator’s board, while Kathryn Barrie will wear two hats as a director of the business and continuing in a senior role at the Public Utilities Office.
The Housing Industry Forecasting Group has downgraded its forecast for new house builds in Western Australia for this year financial year to a record low, tipping a 13.9 per cent decrease from its previous forecast.
The state government has introduced a science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills strategy, which aims to have 85 per cent of year 12 students completing two or more STEM courses.
The University of Notre Dame Australia and Fremantle Ports have signed a partnership agreement designed to create new study, research, training and graduate opportunities for both organisations and the broader Fremantle community.
Chevron has started the second stage of its Gorgon drilling campaign, which will create 11 new wells at the $5 billion project on Western Australia’s north-west coast.
Auroch Minerals is tapping into the resurgence of nickel activity in Western Australia, striking a deal to acquire Minotaur Exploration’s Saints and Leinster projects near Kalgoorlie.
One of the state’s largest indigenous contractors, which counted Fortescue Metals Group and Roy Hill Holdings among its clients, has been placed into liquidation.
