Brent oil prices rose overnight, briefly touching $US70 a barrel for the first time since November as expectations of tight global supply outweighed pressure from rising US production and less robust global demand indicators.
Gold inched higher overnight after touching a near 10-week low earlier in the session as the US dollar firmed on US jobs data, while investors awaited clarity on US-China trade talks.
Perth-based P&N Bank has agreed to merge with its smaller east coast counterpart bcu, creating one of the largest customer-owned banks in Australia with $6 billion of assets.
Publicans and restaurateurs have spent more than $5 million on a string of refurbishments and new developments in the flourishing precinct around Scarborough.
Sales of passenger vehicles in Western Australia in the three months to March fell by 18.5 per cent from the prior corresponding period and sales of sport utility vehicles also fell, but demand for light commercial vehicles was on the rise.
Listed companies Battery Minerals, Cassini Resources and First Graphene have completed share placements, with the proceeds to help fund their projects in the battery metals sector.
Mineral Commodities (MRC) has acquired Norwegian company Skaland Graphite, which the Welshpool-based miner said was the owner of the world’s highest grade flake graphite operation.
Attorney General John Quigley has announced the appointment of Supreme Court justice Janine Pritchard as president of the State Administrative Tribunal for a five-year term, effective from June 4 2019.
Woodside Petroleum and Chevron have applied for a new licence for their Kitimat LNG plant in northern British Columbia that could nearly double the project's size to produce 18 million tonnes per annum (mtpa).
IOOF managing director Christopher Kelaher has left the business, as the beleaguered wealth manager focuses on restoring trust amid a shareholder class action and court action by the prudential regulator.
Oil prices edged down overnight after US government data showed a surprise build in crude inventories, but futures held near their highest in almost five months as OPEC-led output cuts and sanctions on Iran tightened the supply outlook.
Gold prices slipped overnight as stock markets rallied globally on hopes the United States and China could clinch a trade deal, while a weaker US dollar limited bullion's losses.
State government owned Gold Corporation is Australia’s third biggest manufacturing business, according to data published by Ibisworld today, with revenue of $18.9 billion in the year to June 2018.
Shares in gold explorer Matador Mining closed nearly 40 per cent higher today after prominent industry figures Mark Clark and Nick Giorgetta backed a $5 million share placement.
A London-based private equity fund has agreed to a conditional cornerstone equity investment of $20.8 million in Kalium Lakes, giving it a 19.99 per cent holding in the aspiring potash producer.
Confidence is returning to Perth’s apartment sector, with a surge in sales motivating developers to advance new projects, driving the highest level of approvals in the past three years.
Former Rising Stars winner Injury Connect has rebranded as Solv to better reflect its continuing rapid growth and expansion of services into safety and health software.
Communications firm Swift Media has announced that chief executive and managing director Xavier Kris will step down in June, following the recent departure of non-executive chairman Carl Clump.
Sydney-based property company GPT Group has announced the appointment of Tracey Horton as a non-executive director, the second Western Australia-based director to join its board.
The Perth District Court has found former C&G Group Industries director, Christopher Edward Eric Skelly, guilty of a fraud charge brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
