News Corporation's full-year earnings have dropped about 28 per cent as growth in its real estate classifieds businesses fails to offset declines in news and book publishing.
ANZ Banking Group's cash profit has slipped 3 per cent in the first nine months of its financial year, weighed down by restructuring charges and bad debts.
Gold has steadied after falling to a one-week low as downward momentum from stronger-than-expected US jobs figures lost steam, with concerns over negative global economic sentiment lending support.
Oil prices are more than two per cent higher amid renewed speculation that OPEC will try to restrain output, easing oversupply worries that's pressured the market to three-month lows.
China ‘spies' put power sale at riskChinese spies have been caught by the intelligence services conducting ‘‘brazen'' espionage in Australia over the past year, hardening
A move flagged by National Party leadership challenger Brendon Grylls to effectively double the rate of the royalty paid by the state's two biggest iron ore miners would make Western Australia one of the most punitive jurisdictions for taxes on production of the commodity.
Mark Pownall, the Head of Content at Business News, joins Jane Marwick on ABC 720 Drive radio to chat about WA business. This week is was Tracey Horton from Navitas and Dustin and Martin Michael, founders of Michael Brothers juice company.
State National Party MPs met at Parliament House today as former leader Brendon Grylls tried to retake the leadership from Terry Redman, claiming the Liberal/National alliance was not in a winnable position for the upcoming state election due in March.
SPECIAL REPORT: Former mining boss Charlie Bass and surgeon Peter Santa Maria are among the growing number of people in Western Australia looking to make innovation a commercial reality.
Investor interest in energy and financial stocks drove the Australian sharemarket higher on Monday, ahead of a flurry of company results this week as earnings season gets under way in earnest.
Half of the top twelve trending companies in Techboard's ranking this fortnight are health-techs, with Perth continuing to assert its credentials in the space.
One Nation senator Rodney Culleton is one step closer to holding on to his new job after successfully applying to the Armidale Local Court, in regional NSW, to have a larceny conviction annulled.
The former head of power generation company Pacific Energy has emerged as the new chief executive of thermal energy company Enerji, replacing Andrew Vlahov, who stepped down last week.
Legend Mining has sold its stake in gold and nickel miner Independence Group for $4 million, with the local explorer netting about $2.5 million profit from the sale.
ANALYSIS: Politics and business never mix well, which is something the state government is about to discover with news that former Nationals WA leader Brendon Grylls is eyeing a return to his party's top job.
Gold has fallen as much as 1.7 per cent, as the greenback rose after data showed that US employment increased more than expected in July, raising the probability of an interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve this year.
Crude oil prices have ended little changed as short-covering returned in late trading, after some weakness earlier in the session as the US dollar rose on robust US jobs data.
Opera singer and cellist Taryn Fiebig, who once performed for Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace, will perform at a one night fundraising concert later this month at her alma mater Churchlands Senior High School.
Qantas is holding off taking delivery of eight A380 superjumbos ordered more than a decade ago because they don't fit with its current plans for growth in Asia.
Local innovators and resources industry professionals, including Karara Mining, Barminco and Fortescue Metals Group, were recognised at two separate awards ceremonies held this week.
Craig Munro-chaired Gulf Manganese Corporation has received a $US10 million ($A13 million) equity commitment from an Indonesian investor to progress development of its Kupang smelting hub in West Timor.
