Coventry Group has issued a profit warning for the first half of 2011 saying that its earnings before interest and tax is likely to be 20 per cent below the previous corresponding period.
Fortescue Metals Group has taken another step toward meeting its pledge to find jobs for at least 300 Aboriginal workers, recruiting 11 Fitzroy Crossing graduates from its Vocational Training and Employment Centre in Port Hedland.
Delays and cost blowouts at Woodside Petroleum's Pluto LNG project have resulted in international ratings agency Standards and Poor's downgrading Woodside's credit rating to BBB+ from A-.
Rio Tinto has bolstered its links with China, with the announcements today of an extension of its Pilbara joint venture with SinoSteel and an Asia-based minerals exploration joint venture with Chinalco.
Australia will be hoping for a repeat performance of Mike Hussey and Brad Haddin's epic 307-run stand in the first Ashes test, after Steven Finn claimed the wicket of Marcus North just two overs before the tea break, leaving Australia reeling at 159-5.
Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has become the latest in a string of engineering contractors to revise its profit forecasts downwards for financial year 2011.
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry wants a ruling by Fair Work Australia which will see employees paid public holiday rates when Christmas holidays fall on a weekend to be reviewed.
Australia is 3 for 94 at lunch on the first day of the second test at the Adelaide Oval after Shane Watson and Mike Hussey steady the ship from a precarious 3 for 2.
The Chinese majority owner of Moly Mines, Hanlong Mining Investment, has received Chinese government approval for a $US466 million loan to complete financing for the Spinifex Ridge molybdenum-copper project in the Pilbara.
A special sitting of the Legislative Council has passed the state government's royalties deal with Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton and has also passed a bill allowing Fortescue Metals Group to expand its export facilities at Port Hedland.
Equinox Minerals has declared its $1.25 billion takeover offer for Citadel Resource Group free of all defeating conditions if it receives an interest in Citadel shares of more than 50 per cent by December 16.
The Housing Industry Association has released a report, which shows that as of June, apprentice and trainee employment in WA is down 15.1 per cent compared with the pre-GFC figure.
Equatorial Resources has announced plans for an institutional placement to raise $25.6 million to accelerate the company's drilling and exploration activities in the Republic of Congo.
South Perth-based Mutiny Gold says final drilling results at its Deflector deposit near Geraldton have returned significant copper-gold mineralisation.
More than 50 former clients of Bell Potter Securities, including some from Perth, have launched a class action against the stockbroking firm alleging it engaged in wrongful conduct by encouraging them to invest in Progen Phamaceuticals.
A proposed 320 kilometre railway line from Hancock Prospecting's Roy Hill Mine to Port Hedland has received both Commonwealth and State environmental approval.
The peak body representing business owners and lessees on Rottnest Island says its members have received positive feedback from visitors to the island about the new 120-room hotel planned for Longreach Bay.
A day after confirming the viability of a the Dargues Reef gold project in New South Wales, Cortona Resources has sold its North Monger project in WA for $2.7 million.
