The Australian share market has rallied and the dollar has dipped after it was revealed the Reserve Bank gave serious thought earlier this month to cutting rates for a fourth time this year.
The Reserve Bank of Australia board acknowledged there was a compelling case for cutting the cash rate to a new record low before leaving it unchanged at 0.75 per cent at this month's meeting.
House values are predicted to rise next year in every Australian city except for Perth, which could experience a further 5 per cent decrease, according to an economics report from HSBC.
Subiaco-based tech company K2fly has signed a five-year contract with Rio Tinto for the provision and implementation of its RCubed resources software across 20 reporting sites.
Woodside Petroleum has laid out plans to triple its gas and oil reserve base which will come from more than $US36 billion worth of projects in Australia, Senegal and Myanmar over the next seven years.
CommInsure will refund more than $12 million to about 30,000 life insurance customers after pleading guilty to 87 counts of unlawfully selling policies in unsolicited phonecalls.
Oil prices fell more than 1.0 per cent overnight, erasing much of last week's gains and tumbling alongside US stocks on uncertainty over a trade deal between the United States and China.
Western Australia’s longest-running residential downturn is not a big concern for the founders of Limnios Property Group, because in 50 years of being involved in inner city property, the Limnios family feels like they have seen it all.
Lithium miner Galaxy Resources said it would scale back operations at its Mt Cattlin mine in Ravensthorpe to help reduce costs until the electric vehicle market improves.
A price has been set for processing Scarborough field gas at the Pluto LNG facility, Woodside Petroleum and BHP announced today, the second boost for the $15 billion project in recent weeks.
Local developer Sirona Capital will soon launch a marketing campaign for its $100 million Lyall Street Residences in South Perth, after winning approval to build on a site it has been seeking to develop for the last five years.
Perth-based IT services provider Empired said it would replace revenue lost this year with recently signed management services contracts, delivering $5 million in recurring annual revenue for the company.
Minerals explorer Alderan Resources has entered an earn-in and joint venture agreement worth up to $US30 million with Rio Tinto to explore its Frisco project in Utah.
Environmental work for part of the Ellenbrook rail line has been submitted to regulators today, with a second stage of the project, from Malaga to Ellenbrook, to be reviewed next year.
African-focused gold explorer Tietto Minerals announced it would raise $17 million through a share placement, primarily to fund drilling at the company’s Abujar project in Côte D’Ivoire.
Murray Cook will take the reins at freight rail network operator Arc Infrastructure early next year as chief executive Paul Larsen steps aside after 12 years in the role.
A senior bureaucrat accused of Western Australia's biggest public sector theft is understood to be in a critical condition in hospital after an incident at his Perth home.
Several former Navitas executives have banded together to form Camino Global Education, following Navitas’ $2.3 billion privatisation in June which saw ownership partially returned to founder Rod J
Saracen Mineral Holdings confirmed today it has agreed to buy a 50 per cent stake in Kalgoorlie’s famous Super Pit gold mine with managing director Raleigh Finlayson saying the asset has already delivered positive surprises.
National Australia Bank is looking to raise $1.4 billion through the issue of medium-term notes to help beef up its capital ahead of a regulatory deadline.
A local farmer, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the founder of an Australian technology unicorn have chipped in $16 million to a new venture capital fund focussed on agrifood tech.
Oil futures gained nearly 2.0 per cent on Friday as comments from a top US official raised optimism for a US-China trade deal but worries about increasing crude supplies capped prices.
Gold prices slipped on Friday, on track to break a three-session winning streak as stock markets hit record highs following comments from US officials that progress was being made on the "phase one" trade agreement with the Chinese government.
