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The Australian dollar has dropped to an eight-month low as heavy falls on local and Chinese share markets weighed on the currency.

Rio Tinto expects iron ore prices will fall 50 per cent from current levels to around per tonne over the next 18 months.

Company profits fell for the fifth consecutive quarter and will weigh on Australia's economic growth and put further pressure on the federal budget.

Online sales growth accelerated in January after the pace slackened off in December, as post-Christmas discounts encouraged shoppers to reach for their credit cards.

Australian junior miners' growth ambitions are being stymied by a lack of federal government support, a new report says.

The Australian share market finished sharply weaker, dragged down by resources stocks that went ex-dividend including mining heavyweight BHP Billiton.

The new chief executive at driller Boart Longyear, Richard O'Brien, will take a pay cut of about one-third.

A French company will launch two satellites to deliver faster broadband speeds to parts of outback Australia that can't access the land-based National Broadband Network.

The housing construction sector started 2013 on the back foot and is showing no sign of the pick-up the Reserve Bank of Australia wants for the industry.

Job advertisements rose in February to their highest level since October 2012, a leading employment survey says.

Sandfire Resources has reported its maiden interim profit, as it continues to ramp up production at the DeGrussa open pit and underground copper-gold mine near Meekatharra.

A rise in iron ore and coal exports is expected to have been the major driver of economic growth in an otherwise weak final three months of 2012.

Miner Lynas Corporation will have a new chief executive from April as it ramps up its production of rare earths products.

The Australian share market has opened lower in a market affected by large stocks going ex-dividend.

The number of companies that posted a profit during the recently concluded reporting season rose to its highest level in three years.

On the last Sunday before the state election, the Liberals and Labor were making promises to families, seniors, people with disabilities and children.

Western Australia's relationship with Asia is 20 years ahead of the rest of the country, Premier Colin Barnett says.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average moved closer to an all-time high last week, as improving economic sentiment overrode concerns about looming government spending cuts.

There are signs of life and glimmers of hope in the market after a reporting season that beat expectations - albeit only slightly - and promised better things to come.

The Australian dollar is almost half a US cent lower after Chinese economic data showed its manufacturing sector is expanding at a slower pace.

The credibility of Liberal and Labor election promises are both under question, with Troy Buswell admitting the Liberals three major pledges are reliant on being half funded by the Commonwealth, an

Australia's export commodity prices rose for the fourth consecutive month in February, Reserve Bank of Australia figures show.

The Australian sharemarket closed almost half a per cent lower as the major resources companies dragged the index down.

Regional airline Skywest has reported a half-year loss of $S2.2 million ($A1.7 million) as the company prepares for a shareholder meeting to vote on the $A98 million takeover proposal from fellow o

Shares in Sirius Resources have surged today after the company announced further promising nickel exploration results near Norseman.

Perth-based developer and fund manager Aspen Group has announced the sale of a New South Wales commercial property for $19 million.

Most homeowners won't be surprised if the central bank leaves the cash rate unchanged after next Tuesday's monthly board meeting.

The state's largest locally-owned lender, Police & Nurses, has today officially changed its name to P&N Bank.

Fresh from announcing plans to develop the Iron Valley mine in the Pilbara, Mineral Resources has become the eleventh Western Australian company in the S&P/ASX 100 Index.

Construction company Diploma Group has reported a net profit of just $73,000 for the half year to December 2012 as it seeks to recover from substantial losses in its development business last finan

Perth's residential property sector was one of three capital city markets to report a fall in value in February, industry analyst RP Data says.

Aurora Oil & Gas has acquired a large slice of highly-prospective oil and shale gas acreage in South Texas for $US117.5 million.