Jittery WA businesses prepare to lift prices
Confidence across WA's businesses has fallen to its lowest level since the comodities boom started, a survey has revealed, with signs that companies are preparing to lift prices to cover spiralling wage and operating costs. The West
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Lawyers eye brokers on Opes share losses
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Shares to slide a crude stokes inflation fears
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Getting personal: Pratt Lawyer fire up blowtorch for Samuel
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THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
Confidence across WA's businesses has fallen to its lowest level since the comodities boom started, a survey has revealed, with signs that companies are preparing to lift prices to cover spiralling wage and operating costs.
Business: High profile law firm Slater & Gordon is investigating a series of potential legal actionc against stock broking firm for moving their clients from conventional margin lending accounts to failed financier Opes Prime.
The sharemarket is poised for its third successive day of lossesthis morning after a plunge on Wall Street.
