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A Perth-based fintech startup is aiming to shake up the retirement incomes market with a new twist on a frequently maligned product.

Rio Tinto has approved a $3.5 billion investment to develop its Koodaideri iron ore mine in the Pilbara, lifting the total amount to be spent on new iron ore projects in Western Australia to $12 billion.

A recent deterioration in profits among China’s steel producers is boosting the prospects of lower-grade iron ore producers such as Fortescue Metals Group, with steelmakers expected to shift their focus to reducing costs rather than boosting volumes if margins continue to decline.

A small bar in Subiaco is demonstrating the benefits to business of developing more efficient waste management practices.

Opinion: Talk of lowering migration targets is small thinking that misses the opportunity.

The Australian share market has opened strongly with broad-based gains following Wall Street's eye-opening performance overnight.

New builds in WA hit 30-year low

Oil fell below $US60 per barrel overnight after US crude inventories rose for the 10th straight week amid concerns about excess global supply.

Gold prices have risen by as much as one per cent from two-week lows as the US dollar tumbled after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicated that interest rates were near normal, soothing investor worries over the pace of rate hikes.

Opinion: The state government was never going to please all sides whatever decision it made on fracking.

The Australian share market has closed slightly lower, dragged down by losses to the major miners after mixed commodity prices overnight.

Artrage chief executive Marcus Canning has announced he will leave his role at the end of next year’s Fringe World Festival.

Shares in Gascoyne Resources have fallen more than 12 per cent today, after the gold producer downgraded its production guidance for the second time in less than a month.

Construction group Doric has clocked up another tactical win in its legal battle with the property developers it partnered with on the ill-fated Rivershores apartment project in North Fremantle.

Eastern Goldfields is at risk of collapse, after the $75 million recapitalisation plan it announced in late September was scrapped today.

Local tech company Nuheara has won a two-year contract to provide the UK’s National Health Service with its IQbuds Boost hearing bud for adults and children with mild to moderate hearing loss.

West African Resources has awarded a five-year, $152 million underground mining contract to fellow Perth-based miner Byrnecut at its Sanbrado gold project in Burkina Faso.

Rio Tinto has appointed former CSIRO chairman and 2011 Australian of the Year Simon McKeon as an independent non-executive director.

West Tech Fest, WA’s premier innovation festival, returns to Perth with a series of programs covering all aspects of technology.

The big miners are weighing on the Australian share market at the open, though energy and health care stocks eked out early gains to curb the losses.

Earlier return to fiscal surplusv

Oil prices fell more than one per cent overnight, in conjunction with sagging stock markets after US President Donald Trump threatened more tariffs on Chinese imports ahead of the coming G20 summit.

The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average have edged higher after White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said an upcoming meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart is an opportunity to "turn the page" on a trade war.

Gold fell overnight to its lowest in more than a week, as the dollar rallied after comments from US Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida bolstered expectations that the central bank would continue raising interest rates.

An accounting company director in Perth who stole more than $43,000 has been spared an immediate prison sentence.

Shares in Global Construction Services have fallen to a one-year low, on the same day the company’s shareholders voted to change its name to that of merger partner SRG Global.

The Australian share market has closed higher after a positive afternoon of trading, buoyed by the financial sector and supported by commodity-related stocks.

Wesfarmers chief executive Rob Scott says while decisions to sell out of Bunnings’ loss-making operations in the UK and Ireland, and to demerge supermarkets giant Coles, were easy in a commercial sense, the Bunnings move in particular proved taxing on an emotional level.

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Resolute Mining has announced plans to list on the London Stock Exchange, just a day after fellow Africa-focused miner MOD Resources was admitted to the LSE.

The downfall of RCR Tomlinson is another reminder of the dangers of a business getting out over its skis.