Oil and gas producer Origin Energy has shipped the first cargo from its Australia Pacific liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility at Curtis Island in North Queensland.
Fortescue Metals Group has deepened its commitment to hockey, striking deals with the sport’s national body thought to be worth more than $1.7 million over the next five years.
Gold companies Doray Minerals, Ramelius Resources and Saracen Mineral Holdings have posted better-than-expected production results for the December quarter, with the precious metal miners bullish on the next six months.
Tony Sage’s Cape Lambert Resources has announced plans to undertake its first capital raising since its initial offer, which was completed when the company listed on the ASX 16 years ago.
US stocks have closed lower, ending a volatile week with their worst five-day start to a year ever, as sliding oil prices and lingering worries about the global economy offset upbeat US job growth.
Gold has fallen further from an earlier nine-week high as stronger-than-expected US payrolls data boosted the US dollar and stock markets, shoring up a recovery in equities.
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Gindalbie Metals has gone into a trading halt following a media report suggesting its Chinese majority shareholder and project partner will no longer keep the jointly owned Karara project afloat.
Melbourne-based developer ICD Property has supersized plans for an apartment development at the old Megamart site on the fringe of the CBD, flagging two towers that would become the fourth and fifth-tallest buildings in Perth.
A volatile day of trading has capped off a brutal New Year start to the Australian share market where the bourse has recorded six straight days of losses.
Mining services company Ausdrill has announced plans to sell its underperforming DT HiLoad truck tray manufacturing business, and is in discussions with several interested parties.
The small Western Australian township of Yarloop appears to have been virtually wiped out and three residents are unaccounted for following an unpredictable bushfire, with the Insurance Council of Australia declaring it a catastrophe.
US-focused biotech company pSivida has released pricing details of a $US16 million capital raising, after two weeks of volatile trading in its ASX-listed shares.
Shares in Perth-based Carbon Conscious have surged on news it commenced milk production at a Chinese-owned dairy farm in the South West, with the company planning to expand its cow herd by nearly 500 per cent by 2017.
The Australian share market has slipped below 5,000 at the open, continuing its disappointing week as Wall Street suffered another fall and oil prices slid to a new low.
Construction activity has fallen, after enjoying four months of expansion, due to weakness in mining-related engineering construction, as well as commercial construction.
Gold prices have climbed above $US1,100 an ounce for the first time in nine weeks as investors moved into safe assets for a fourth straight day after worries about the Chinese economy hit global st
US stocks sold off further on Thursday, giving the Dow its worst start to a year since the 30-stock index was created in 1928, dragged down by another drop in Chinese equities and oil prices at 12-
A Perth-based online gaming company that has raised $14.6 million from private investors is pursuing a stockmarket float after reporting spectacular growth in revenue.
Rare earths company Arafura Resources has progressed negotiations for the formation of a joint venture which will build a separation plant in South Korea.
Metals giant Alcoa of Australia says its WA alumina refining operations have not been affected by the Waroona bushfire but its Farmlands business has sustained some damage.
Nearly $87 billion has been wiped from Australian equities in the first four trading sessions of 2016 after another Chinese meltdown sent the local market plunging by more than two per cent on Thursday.