The Australian share market has closed weaker despite retracing some of its earlier losses as market enthusiasm for the potential policies of US president-elect Donald Trump moderates.
Every member of the Australian Test side beaten so comprehensively by South Africa in Hobart will return to first-class cricket on Thursday, with the exception of pacemen Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Joe Mennie.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned a Perth man from providing financial services after finding he had redirected $254,000 worth of clients’ funds into his own accounts.
The Australian Shareholders' Association is calling for Gerry Harvey to be removed as Harvey Norman executive chairman after a heated exchange with the retail veteran about the company's accounts.
Belmont-based GR Engineering Services has been contracted to undertake a scoping study at Primary Gold’s Mount Bundy project in the Northern Territory.
Rox Resources has locked horns with Marindi Metals over a failed bid to acquire its stake in the Reward zinc project, a day after Marindi started legal action against Kidman Resources over another deal which Kidman says doesn’t exist.
Oil prices have been largely steady, rebounding from three-month lows, on a report saying that OPEC members were seeking to resolve their differences on a deal to cut production ahead of a meeting later in November.
Gold has fallen for the third straight session, finding a five-and-a-half-month low as the US dollar and Treasury yields strengthen on expectations that President-elect Donald Trump will boost US spending.
US stocks closed little changed on Monday after rising dramatically the week before and a decline in the technology sector offset a steep rise in financial stocks as investors bet on higher interest rates.
China, Australia to push for new trade blocChina has singled out Australia as a key partner in a renewed push for a regional free trade pact at a meeting of Asia-Pacific l
AGL Energy is set to take on Alinta Energy and Wesfarmers' subsidiary Kleenheat in Western Australia’s retail gas market, with the company targeting 100,000 customers within two years.
Diversified surveying and contracting group OTOC said today there had been a reduction in the volume of work available for its infrastructure division at the immigration detention centre on Nauru, with the slowdown expected to hit divisional earnings.
Before the unexpected (and perhaps unsustainable) rise in the price of iron ore, a more interesting trend was developing in the mineral that could put a spring under one of Western Australia’s most
Long-running homebuilding brand Collier Homes will continue to operate in Western Australia, after the business was sold to local entrepreneur Dario Amara.
The Australian share market has closed lower, shedding some of last week's Donald Trump-led rally as investors take profits and mull over the US president-elect's policies.
Agribusiness Elders' full-year net profit has lifted 35 per cent to $51.6 million with higher retail sales and a strong performance in its strong livestock agency business.
Singapore-based Mitra Energy has completed the $US10 million ($A13.3 million) purchase of the Stag oil field off the Pilbara coast, but is still awaiting regulatory approval to take over as operator.
Fortescue Metals Group has signed a $US473 million ($A626 million) financing agreement with a unit of China Development Bank to fund the ongoing construction of eight very large ore carriers (VLOC).
The Australian share market has slipped in early trade as overnight declines in oil and metals prices weighed on investors' minds along with general uncertainty over the next US administration.
The Australian dollar has been bashed amid market concerns about the potential impact of US President-elect Donald Trump's policies on the Australian economy.
Oil prices have settled down more than two per cent after OPEC said October output reached another record, casting doubt on whether its plan to limit production is achievable or enough to ease persisting oversupply in the market.
Gold prices have tumbled three per cent to a five-month low, hit by a broad selloff in commodities as well as surging bond yields on speculation a splurge of US infrastructure spending could stoke inflation.
Alarm over Shorten’s Trump-liteBusiness has slammed Labor leader Bill Shorten for using 457 visa holders as a ‘‘proxy punching bag’’ in an effort to tap into community fea
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