US stocks have ended lower, snapping a four-session rally, as a gloomy global economic growth outlook, trade concerns and disappointing company forecasts dampened sentiment.
The Australian stock market has closed lower for the first time in six days dragged heavily by financials, but remains on a six-year high comparatively for January.
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Big donations to three philanthropic trusts in Western Australia augur well for future charitable donations, although the state’s wealthiest person, Gina Rinehart, has bucked the trend.
Sheffield Resources has signed a deal with Woodside Petroleum and Energy Developments for the supply of liquified natural gas to the Thunderbird mineral sands project in the Kimberley.
BHP Group has highlighted a $US600 million (approximately $840 million) fall in earnings due to production disruptions at its Australian and Chile operations.
Perth’s Agristart accelerator program has won $485,000 of federal government funding to run three startup incubation programs in regional Western Australia, in Northam, Albany and Busselton.
Finbar Group’s new $330 million Civic Heart in South Perth will comprise two towers at 39 and 22 storeys, with the state government giving its tick to planning guideline changes for the site.
Osborne Park-based ServTech Global Holdings has acquired an Italy-based virtual reality and augmented reality software developer in an all-script deal worth around $5.9 million up-front, as the company seeks to turn around its struggling performance.
Marine services company TAMS Group has expanded outside of Western Australia, acquiring two Queensland-based companies with a combined staff of about 150 employees.
Heavyweight financial stocks have extended their losses and the big miners are also dragging the Australian share market lower amid a subdued growth outlook.
Rod Jones, who quit as chief executive of Navitas in 2017 only to return as part of a private equity-led takeover offer, says more staff and an improved experience for students is needed to get the most out of the university partnerships business.
Oil prices have edged up, reversing earlier losses, as investors shrugged off data that confirmed China's slowing economy and instead latched on to positive supply-side drivers for the market.
Gold has slipped to its lowest level in almost a month as a firm dollar and greater risk appetite outweighed support from an expected pause to increases in US interest rates.
CBH Group has announced a $128 million surplus for the year to September 2018, compared to the previous year’s result of $248 million which was boosted by a record grain harvest.
Treasurer Ben Wyatt has said he does not think BHP Group has been a bad corporate citizen after it was today revealed the iron ore miner might owe up to $300 million to the state in royalties, the company’s third such battle in recent years.
MZI Resources has decided to explore the sale of its Keysbrook mineral sands mine after recurring technical setbacks left the company saddled with high debt.
Sandfire Resources confirmed today it has approached MOD Resources about a potential takeover, with the target proceeding instead with a $15 million capital raising to support work on its T3 copper project.
Ausdrill has won contracts in Western Australia worth a combined $171 million, including for underground mining services at Regis Resources’ Rosemont project.
Perth-based contractor Clough has been chosen in collaboration with Italian business Salini Impregilo as preferred tenderer for civil works at the Snowy Hydro 2.0 pump storage project.
Perth-based company Kinetic IT has broken into the federal government market for the first time after signing two contracts with the Department of Defence worth a combined $91 million.
GR Engineering Services has been awarded the engineering, procurement, and construction contract for Tellus Holdings’ Sandy Ridge facility, located 140 kilometres north-west of Kalgoorlie.
