AUSTRALIA is safeguarded from the worst of the global financial markets because of the strength of the nation's big four banks, according to KPMG partner Kevin Smout.
OSBORNE Park-based distributor of electronic workstations and servers, EDsys Computers, has taken an energy efficient approach to business since it was founded in 1992.
A DECISION by Perth-based Technip Subsea 7 Asia-Pacific to link its safety standards with not-for-profit donations will this year assist the Leukaemia Foundation of WA with its ongoing research.
Perth's sluggish housing market has continued to slow through the September quarter, according to data released yesterday from the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia.
Perth-based Incremental Petroleum Ltd today dismissed suggestions by Cooper Energy Ltd that it has insufficient cash to fund its growth strategy as "scare mongering".
South-Perth based Cooper Energy Ltd chairman Laurie Shervington today said KPMG's valuation of its hostile takeover target Incremental Petroleum Ltd was out with the fairies.
Western Australia remains the powerhouse of the nation and shows few signs of slowing despite the international economy continuing to feel the impact global financial crisis, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA said today.
INDUSTRY groups in Western Australia have welcomed an Auditor General's report critical of the government's approvals process, saying the issues raised highlight an urgent need for change.
WHEN issuers of high-yield securities backed by sub-prime mortgages went on the sales offensive to investors in Western Australia in mid-2007, they pursued the three Cs - councils, churches and charities.
THE state could have been up to $2 billion better off if the Carpenter government had actively pursued renewable energy projects at the start of the decade, according to WA Sustainable Energy Association chief executive Ray Wills.
THE sub-prime mortgage crisis could adversely affect some of the state's more conservative not-for-profit organisations, with a number having invested in complex financial securities called collateralised debt obligations.
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South-Perth based Cooper Energy Ltd today said its hostile takeover bid for Incremental Petroleum Ltd could become ugly if Incremental's board acts against its shareholders' wishes and refuses the unsolicited takeover offer.
Subiaco-based Poseidon Nickel Ltd will sack at least nine workers after the company said yesterday it had suspended work at the underground Mt Windarra Nickel Project in the Goldfields.
Western Australia's largest home builders have endured a slump in housing starts in 2007-08 but experience a marginal improvement in market share, an HIA report released today has found.
Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett will raise Australia's investment relationship with China at today's Council of Australian Governments meeting in Perth.
