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Western Australia’s unemployment rate fell 0.3 points, to 6.3 per cent, in seasonally adjusted terms in December, as 8,000 people took on new employment.

Northern Star Resources and Regis Resources have capped off a positive first half of the financial year for gold miners, with December quarter results released today.

The Australian share market has plunged by more two per cent in early trade, with losses across the board following a slump on Wall Street overnight.

Perth-based conglomerate Wesfarmers is poised to make its first major move outside Australasia, offering $A700 million to acquire the Homebase home improvement chain in the UK and revealing plans to develop a new Bunnings-branded business in that market.

US stocks have sold off sharply as a brief rally in beaten-down oil prices stalled after US data added to concerns about an oversupplied energy market.

The Australian dollar is down as Wall Street suffers following further losses on Chinese stock markets.

Windfall profits from oil collapse

Metals X has waived a minimum acceptance condition on its $68 million takeover bid for Aditya Birla Minerals after lifting its holding in the copper miner to 18.24 per cent, less than previously di

reiwa.com property sales data for the overall market for the week ending 12 January 2016 totalled 482 which represents a 73 per cent increase in total sales over the week.

Mineral sands miner Base Resources has received a force majeure notice from one of its offtake partners, which will affect an $US11.6 million ilmenite sales agreement.

Western Australia’s biggest and most productive gas production facility suffered an equipment failure early this morning.

Avita Medical founder Fiona Wood has stepped down from the company's board as the regenerative medicine developer drives towards the US market.

The Australian share market has broken its eight-day losing streak thanks to better-than-expected Chinese trade figures.

The federal government will spend $8.5 million to change the traffic lines on all Mitchell and Kwinana freeway on-ramps in an effort to improve traffic merging and remove the stigma widely associated with Perth drivers.

Stephen Pollard reckons there aren’t many industries where uniforms come in size 5XL, but the chief executive of contracting and materials company All Earth Group, who spends his days surrounded by big equipment and a workforce of big blokes, is on a mission to prove less is more.

Nearly 100 Western Australian companies entered external administration last November, giving the state its highest share of the national total in nearly a decade.

If Woodside Petroleum is ever looking for a corporate slogan it could borrow a saying from the Dutch philosopher Erasmus: “in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king”.

Consumer finance software provider ThinkSmart's shares have bounced on hopes of a healthy rise in full year profit.

Australia's biggest iron ore miners are expected to slash dividends next month as the price of the steel-making commodity dropped to $US40 a tonne overnight.

MSM Corporation International and Department 13 International both debuted on the ASX today, after completing their respective reverse takeovers and backdoor listings.

Sundance Resources’ hopes of developing its Mbalam-Babeba iron ore project in Cameroon have been dragged out further, with delays to construction of port and rail infrastructure.

Mining services contractor Sedgman has told its shareholders to take no action towards CIMIC Group’s $153.1 million offer for all the shares it doesn’t already own in the business.

The Australian share market is higher in early trade as a stronger banking sector outweighs weakness among mining stocks.

The Australian dollar is treading water as nervous investors await key Chinese trade figures.

A late rebound in energy and biotech shares has helped push the S&P 500 to a second straight day of gains, while Apple and other technology shares also boosted the market.

US and European stock investors have bought beaten-down shares, at least temporarily looking past another steep drop in oil prices that briefly sent US crude below $US30 a barrel.

Banks edge to super tax hikes

Architecture firm Woods Bagot will shift its Perth studio to the Palace Hotel on St Georges Terrace in May, after overseeing a comprehensive restoration of the historic building that will also inco

The cities may be on the opposite sides of the globe, but it seems like Perth and Houston are a lot closer these days.

The Australian share market has closed in negative territory for its eighth consecutive session, as energy stocks tumbled amid fears of further oil price falls.

Citation Resources’ 40 per cent-owned subsidiary Pearl Global has struck a heads of agreement with a Singaporean renewable energy company to fund the development of up to 50 tyre recycling plants across Asia.

South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon has renewed his call for an inquiry into the cause of the dramatic recent fall in the iron ore price while in Perth today, as shares in the state’s biggest miners continued to fall.