CONSTRUCTION companies including industry heavyweight BGC have attacked the state government tendering process used to award hundreds of millions of dollars worth of work upgrading the state's primary schools.
THE release of a report recommending tougher regulations concerning insider trading and director share trades has prompted an outcry from a group protecting directors' interests.
Economic theorists can’t be blamed for the global financial crisis and, for the situation to improve, we may have to start thinking about things in a radically different way.
A $5.7 MILLION research and development program launched in 2007 has paid dividends for Canning Vale-based Veem Limited, which won this year's Most Innovative Marine Industry Exported Product category
Sydney-based RIMCapital has written off its investment in unlisted company Yilgarn Infrastructure Ltd, which was the unsuccessful bidder for the development of the Oakajee deepwater port and associated rail project.
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA says it would be a "mistake" to abandon reform in the state's electricty market by re-amalgamating Verve Energy with Synergy.
South Korea's Samsung Corporation has agreed to invest $40 million to take a small direct interest in Perdaman Chemicals & Fertilisers' $3.5 billion Collie urea project.
Perth office vacancies worst in 17 years; RBS deal furthers ANZ's Asia push; Bankers punt on renewed appetite for IPOs; Avoca chief warns rival for Dioro is unproven; Rates on hold, but not for long
Moly Mines has warned its future depends on the success of debt restructure talks with its lender as project acquisition plans are put on the backburner.
The state government has conditionally agreed to build part of a major power line in the Mid West after it omitted the upgrade in this year's budget due to a substantial cost blow-out.
The state's resource companies have led a strong rebound in the Deloitte WA Index in the second half of the 2009 financial year, with the market capitalisation of stocks jumping 30 per cent in the June quarter.
Western Australians are a negative lot compared to the rest of the nation with nearly half responding to a home finance survey believing their property values will decline in the next quarter.
Chevron has taken the next step in its ambitious plans to become a major gas operator in WA, awarding the onshore front-end engineering and design contract for its $25 billion Wheatstone project to US company Bechtel Oil, Gas & Chemicals Inc.
