Gold has fallen to its lowest level in more than a week, suffering its sharpest single session loss in more than six weeks after a report showed strong US home sales in March, raising expectations for a June US Federal Reserve interest rate hike.
It may be too soon to expect a woman to take the helm of BHP Billiton, but the iron ore giant has revealed an initiative it hopes will lead to greater gender diversity among its management team
Five weeks after announcing a $7.2 million rights issue, and three weeks after getting a loan from two of its directors, Viento Group has called a trading halt on its shares while it considers funding options.
Liberty Resources is ticking the remaining boxes on its list of requirements to be met for its proposed acquisition of Cirrus Networks, with an independent expert giving the transaction its stamp of approval today, ahead of a shareholders meeting next month.
Global energy companies Chevron, Shell, Inpex and Woodside Petroleum have agreed to jointly fund development of new systems to improve tropical cyclone forecasting in northern Australia.
LandCorp has launched the first-stage of its ambitious Cockburn Coast redevelopment project, which it envisages will become home to 12,000 people in medium and high-density housing.
Former US Consul General Robin McClellan has been appointed Leadership WA's new chief executive officer, following Sue van Leeuwen's retirement after seven years at the helm.
Regal Resources has entered into an agreement to acquire a 90 per cent interest in several tenements held by Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines, in close proximity to its Regal's copper project in Africa.
The price of consumer goods and services rose 0.1 per cent in Western Australia and 0.2 per cent nationally in the March quarter, fuelling expectations of an interest rate cut in May.
A Claremont office on Stirling Highway has been sold to a private investor for $1.7 million, with the deal brokered by commercial agency Burgess Rawson.
Another major development site has come to market in Scarborough, with commercial agency JLL appointed to sell the Luna Maxi Mart shopping centre on behalf of owner CCI Group.
BHP Billiton has deferred planned capital spending to improve its operations at Port Hedland harbour, after better-than-expected performance from its existing assets enabled the mining giant to lift its production guidance for the current financial year.
Gold have risen past chart resistance, recouping most of the previous session's losses in choppy, currency-driven trade after the US dollar turned lower and bolstered bullion's appeal.
US stocks have mostly fallen but the Nasdaq stayed in positive territory as Israel's Teva announced a $US40.1 billion ($A51.92 billion) cash-and-stock bid for generic drug maker Mylan.
Atlas Iron has asked for an extension to its share trading suspension as it continues carrying out a review and talking with creditors and contractors.
Property developers with projects worth as little as $2 million and as much as $10 million can choose to have their proposals evaluated by a Development Assessment Panel rather than their local council.
Nedlands-based Mustera Property Group has bought a 2,223 square metre lot in East Perth from Georgiou Capital for $4 million, and has the option to buy an adjoining lot for a further $8.5 million.
