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Crude oil prices have traded mixed amid reports that Iran had seized a cargo ship in Iranian territorial waters in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a key oil transit route.

After moving at crawl for decades, the taxi industry is heading backwards.

Analysts are looking to the services sector to drive the next phase of economic growth, amid a slowdown in resources investment and the collapse of key commodity prices.

RFDS puts call out for support

A Rio Tinto subsidiary has admitted failing to provide a safe working environment after the death of an employee at a Western Australian mine.

Western Australian farmers are twice as likely as other states to hire new staff this year, according to a report released by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Iron ore miner Mineral Resources is pressing ahead with plans for innovative ‘skyrail' and trans-shipping projects in the Pilbara, saying that together they can cut $25 per tonne off its operating costs.

BHP Billiton has committed $22 million towards influencing the perception of mathematics among girls and young women, in partnership with the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute.

The share market has fallen further away from the key 6,000-point level as a recovery in commodity prices failed to boost the big miners.

Shares in internet market target iiNet surged again today to a new intra-day high before closing at around $10 each in line with yesterday's formal bid from M2 Group.

Referrals will get you business, but they won't come unless you earn them.

A subsidiary of mining services business Ausdrill has received a contract offer from global miner Peabody Energy to supply equipment to its Australian coal assets.

Shares in local gold miners have dominated on the ASX today after the spot price for the precious metal jumped by over 2 per cent overnight to $US1,203.30 an ounce

Private investment group Silverleaf Investments has added to its retail portfolio, buying the Millstream Shopping Centre in South Perth for $13.6 million.

Perth-based health fund HBF has formed a partnership with online comparison service provider iSelect to distribute its suite of health insurance products outside of Western Australia.

West Perth-based explorer South Boulder Mines has announced another capital raising to fund ongoing work at its Colluli potash project in East Africa.

A Perth-based company is looking to make an international impact in the concrete cutting industry.

Developers are turning to innovative building methods to help address the costs of constructing hotels.

The commercial construction sector is emerging as a bright spot amid all the doom and gloom in WA. Click through to see the special report, with details of Perth's biggest construction jobs.

The Australian share market has opened lower.

People leaving the workforce now have got it much tougher than those who left a decade ago and will need to take a lot more risk in order to fund their retirement, the head of the Reserve Bank says.

Gold has jumped more than two per cent - to be back above $1,200 an ounce.

The Australian dollar has risen amid softer-than-expected US economic data in the lead-up to this week's US Federal Reserve meeting.

US stocks have snapped a three-day rally to record highs as investors awaited Apple earnings results and a Federal Reserve policy meeting.

World oil prices have traded narrowly mixed as traders assessed escalating violence in Yemen and the prospect of another rise in US crude inventories.

A plan to grow the state's Aboriginal tourism offerings relies heavily on corporate participation.

An unlikely sector is confidently going about its business while other parts of the economy struggle.

The Australian sharemarket ended the week strongly, with gains on the back of a rally in iron ore prices from decade lows.

The receivers who took charge of the Windimurra vanadium project in February have put the trouble-plagued mine up for sale, with Gresham Advisory Partners appointed to find a buyer.

Western Australia is another step towards developing a uranium export industry, with Canadian giant Cameco receiving federal environmental approval at its Kintyre deposit in the East Pilbara.

The state and federal governments have committed a combined $14.9 million to widen Kwinana Freeway southbound along a 3 kilometre stretch from Armadale Road to Russell Road.

East Africa Resources has become the 36th Perth-based company to announce a backdoor listing deal in the past 18 months, with plans to exit uranium exploration and acquire local security services business Threat Protect Australia.