Local innovators and resources industry professionals, including Karara Mining, Barminco and Fortescue Metals Group, were recognised at two separate awards ceremonies held this week.
Craig Munro-chaired Gulf Manganese Corporation has received a $US10 million ($A13 million) equity commitment from an Indonesian investor to progress development of its Kupang smelting hub in West Timor.
The state government is hoping a two-year pay deal with 16,000 health sector workers will set a precedent for other public sector workers including prison officers and nurses as it tries to contain spending growth in the lead-up to next year's election.
A short term domestic gas contract between Woodside Petroleum and electricity generator Synergy is the first such deal since the North West Shelf Venture partners moved towards separate marketing of their production.
Underwater services company Shelf Subsea has merged with the local subsidiary of global geotechnical, survey and geosciences company Fugro in a deal worth $40 million.
Monadelphous Group has restructured its interest in struggling waste technology company AnaeCo, with a debt for equity swap and loan sale that will see the Perth engineering firm emerge with a 30 per cent stake and a Chinese enterprise with a 55 per cent interest.
Virgin Australia has posted a full year net loss of $224.7 million, after taking charges related to fleet simplification and other efficiency activities.
Global stock markets have risen and sterling has dipped after the Bank of England cut interest rates and revived a bond-buying program to cushion the economic blow from Britain's June 23 vote to leave the European Union.
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PHOTO ESSAY: Ahead of the start of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Business News photographer Attila Csaszar spent some time with the three Western Australian athletes who will represent the nation as part of the Aussie Stingers women’s water polo team.
National Australia Bank chief executive Andrew Thorburn will tell a parliamentary committee that his bank had to balance the needs of borrowers, savers, investors and shareholders when it decided not to pass on in full the Reserve Bank's latest rate cut.
Bunnings’ property arm, BWP Trust, has posted a solid 48 per cent increase in net profit for the 2016 financial year, backed by some big revaluations and higher rental growth.
Advocates for the abolition of Western Australia’s development assessment panels took a hit yesterday, after the WA Local Government Association knocked back two motions that called for the scrappi
Downer's full-year profit has dropped 14 per cent due to a slowdown in its main mining and construction divisions and write-offs related to an unsuccessful metro rail bid.
Work is officially under way on the second stage of the Australian Centre for Energy Process Training facility in Munster, with the first sod turned today.
Shares in mining equipment supplier Emeco Holdings were up 50 per cent today after the company revealed an earnings uplift despite continued tough conditions.
Probuild has started construction of the Ritz-Carlton hotel and The Towers apartments project at Elizabeth Quay, with the luxury development to open in 2019.
Premier Colin Barnett has voiced his opposition to The West Australian’s proposed purchase of The Sunday Times as the competition watchdog raised concerns of its own.
Diversified miner Metals X has confirmed a $115.6 million capital raising and plans to demerge its gold assets into a new company, which will be led by existing chief executive Peter Cook.
The Australian share market has opened strongly, with energy firms and global miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto leading the benchmark index back above the 5,500 mark.
Global equity prices have slipped for a third straight day due to growing nervousness about US central bank policy, even as Wall Street eked out a modest gain.
The price of gold has retreated from the three-week high set in the previous session, after a rise in the US dollar on the back of strong economic data.
The Australian dollar has held ground just above its Wednesday close but remains in a tight range against the greenback ahead of the release of local retail trade.
Oil prices have jumped more than three per cent, with US crude futures returning to above $US40 a barrel, after a larger-than-expected petrol draw offset a surprise build in crude stockpiles in the No 1 oil consumer.
