In a wide-ranging interview, Mark Pownall explores the career of Tianqi Lithium general manager Phil Thick and discusses the state of the battery metals industry.
Mining contractor Macmahon Holdings has agreed to pay a $6.7 million settlement for a class action related to cost overruns at a construction project in 2012.
Federal Labor is hoping influential Senate crossbenchers deliver crucial support for a push to guarantee no state or territory will be worse off under new GST revenue carve-up arrangements.
Gains for materials, banking sector, and energy stocks have lifted the ASX at Thursday's open, following a strong overnight performance by Wall Street on the back of rising US Treasury yields.
US shares have advanced and the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record for a second day, after American economic data fuelled a rise in Treasury yields, lifting financial stocks.
Brent crude rose nearly two per cent after hitting a four-year high on overnight as the market focused on upcoming US sanctions on Iran, while shrugging off the year's largest weekly build in US crude stockpiles and reports of higher Saudi Arabian and Russian production.
Gold eased overnight after the Italian government indicated it was open to trimming its budget deficit and debt, soothing investors' nerves and prompting a wider move back into stocks and other higher-risk assets.
Civmec has erected the first steel for its new $80 million assembly hall in Henderson today, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison in attendance for the event.
Gold Corporation chairman Don Mackay-Coghill has launched a broadside against the loose monetary policy of central banks in the past decade, warning it has inflated a big bubble.
Chevron Australia has given the green light to a purpose-built tower at Elizabeth Quay, lodging a development application for a 30-level building for lot seven of the precinct.
US tennis star Serena Williams is the latest high-profile player to commit to the upcoming Hopman Cup, with the news coinciding with data showing an increase in the number of tourist visits to Western Australia.
Sydney-based SCA Property Group has purchased four Perth shopping centres for a combined $269.4 million as part of a larger deal with ASX-listed Vicinity Centres.
The Australian share market has edged higher at the open, boosted by the heavyweight materials sector, which lifted on improved copper and gold prices.
Oil prices eased slightly after rallying for three straight sessions, but remained close to four-year highs on worries that global supplies will drop due to Washington's sanctions on Iran.
Gold hit its highest in more than a week overnight, vaulting the $US1,200 per ounce mark, as investors sought refuge in the metal after stock markets sold off due to anti-euro comments by an Italian lawmaker.
The government of East Timor has struck a deal to buy a 30 per cent stake in the Woodside Petroleum-operated Sunrise gas project, as it continues pressing for development of an LNG plant on its own territory.
Real estate investment trust Dexus has filled more than half of 240 St Georges Terrace – the Woodside Petroleum building – with Macquarie Bank and engineering group Wood plc committing to about 22,870 square metres of space at the tower.
The Australian share market has closed lower, dragged down by banking and health care stocks while the Australian dollar has fallen after the Reserve Bank held the cash rate at 1.5 per cent for the 26th straight month.
