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US shares have put on a solid rally with investors piling back into blue chips and especially tech stocks as a Federal Reserve report depicted steady US economic growth.

The Australian dollar has rebounded from a six-year low on the back of US share market strength and a Chinese national holiday.

Oil prices have climbed in a modest rebound from a sharp sell-off after a mixed US petroleum report showed an increase in crude inventories and a decline in production.

Gold has eased as a rebound in stocks and the US dollar arrests a four-day rise, with uncertainty over the timing of a looming US rate rise limiting price moves ahead of key US non-farm payrolls data on Friday.

This week REIWA members reported the total number of sales are up again to 708, an increase of 5 per cent on the previous week.

Australia's mining downturn has bottomed out despite ongoing volatility in global markets, Premier Colin Barnett says.

Minbos Resources has ended merger talks with its joint venture partner, Petril Projects, after the two companies were unable to agree on certain terms of the proposal.

Leading players in Western Australia's disability services sector claim the National Disability Insurance Scheme has set unrealistic cost parameters that could force up to 40 per cent of local providers out of business.

The Australian share market has finished in positive territory following a rally in China, but uncertainty on global markets continues.

The competition watchdog plans to grant a regulatory exemption to WA Chip & Pulp Co, which will allow the Japanese-owned woodchip exporter to continue its partnership with international grain trader Bunge at the Port of Bunbury.

It’s cheaper to book a hotel room in Perth than it was 12 months ago, but that hasn’t stopped Western Australia losing out to other states when it comes to attracting international visitors.

A new biography highlights the importance of Bob Santamaria to the Australian political landscape.

A single worker en route to the Roy Hill mine site has been found to be in possession of cannabis, after police searching for illicit drugs visited a number of remote Pilbara worksites serviced by fly-in, fly-out workers.

Watpac is part of a consortium selected as the preferred tenderer for the construction of 15 new schools in Victoria.

Falling exports have battered the June quarter GDP growth figures for Western Australia and nationally, but underlying demand increased more in WA than other states.

The corporate watchdog says former Hanlong Mining managing director Hui Xiao has pleaded guilty to insider trading involving two Perth resources companies.

7-Eleven says it will establish an independent panel to review franchise agreement terms, amid claims that staff have been underpaid by franchisees.

Test cricket legend Dennis Lillee has sensationally resigned as president of the WACA as the organisation prepares to unveil its make-or-break plan to guarantee the future of the iconic cricket venue.

Harvey Norman's acquisition of a stake in a dairy farm may be mystifying for some, but not for executive chairman Gerry Harvey.

The Australian share market has opened lower.

Transfer duty, or stamp duty, as it was known until 2008, is one of the most inefficient, distortive and poorly targeted taxes in Australia.

World oil prices have tumbled as poor manufacturing data in China, the world's largest energy consumer, hammered the outlook for demand and shook market confidence.

US stocks have lost another nearly three per cent as new data offered more evidence that China's industrial machine is stalling.

Gold has gained per cent as the US dollar and global equities dropped on fresh signs of economic weakness in China and uncertainty over the timing of the Federal Reserve's first interest rate rise in nearly a decade.

The Australian dollar has hit another six-year low, with traders pessimistic ahead of the release of domestic gross domestic product figures.

An estimated $32 billion has been wiped from the Australian share market due to indications of further weakness in the Chinese economy.

Perth-based Wolf Minerals has passed another milestone at its Hemerdon tungsten and tin project in Devon, in southern England, with the plant producing its first tungsten concentrate.

Peet has sold a half stake in its $200 million Shorehaven Coastal Village Centre in Alkimos, to an unnamed offshore buyer.

If you want to improve the way you sell, take note of how, and what, you buy.

Dwelling prices rose by an average of just 0.3 per cent in Australia’s capital cities in August, with Perth being one of the poorer performers, with prices down by 1.3 per cent.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has left the cash rate at a record low of 2 per cent for a fourth straight month.

A UK-based institution has signed an agreement with TFS Corporation to invest in 208 hectares of new Indian sandalwood plantations in the Northern Territory, for an undisclosed sum.