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A rally in battered energy shares led US stocks to rebound, while financials rose after upbeat results from JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Abbott's jobs target within reach

Grain handler CBH Group has revealed an $82.7 million net profit for the 2014-15 year, although its storage and handling business performed much better than the larger trading arm.

The recent commissioning of a $120 million research vessel, the RV Investigator, could be a game changer for scientists and the mining sector.

The Australian share market closed 1.5 per cent lower as investors fretted about the economic outlook following another rocky session on Wall Street.

Stockbroker Andrew Frazer is planning to keep together his 12-strong team in Perth and Sydney, after current backer GMP Securities announced a major restructuring of its international operations.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve asked the Wesfarmers leadership when they would look at an international expansion.

Local miner Pilbara Minerals is threatening legal action against its former joint venture partner after discovering problems with the plant at its Tabba Tabba tantalite project, which was completed in November.

Western Australians donating household items for people affected by the bushfires in the South West have been so generous that St Vincent de Paul Society WA has been inundated with goods exceeding its capacity to deliver them.

Mining equipment supplier Emeco Holdings has announced a deterioration of its Canadian operations as a result of the depressed oil price, but still expects to lift underlying earnings from a weak FY15 result.

Mining giant Rio Tinto has put a freeze on salaries for all employees as it hunts for savings in the face of a continuing slump in commodities prices.

Dick Smith's fate may not be decided for another six months, with administrators set to apply for more time to investigate the downfall of the electrical retailer.

Engineering and construction group Valmec has secured a $4.3 million contract for work at Vector Gas’s compression project in Auckland.

The executive chairman of Wembley-based ACI Broking Services has been banned from providing financial services for four years by the corporate watchdog.

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.