Western Australia has recorded its highest number of insolvencies for a month in nearly two years, with 841 companies entering external administration across the country in July.
Junior miner Jameson Resources says it has received firm commitments for a $2 million capital raising to fund work at its flagship Crown Mountain coking coal project in British Columbia.
Monitoring the stock of property for sale is an important health check on the market and, coupled with activity, gives us a sense whether it is a buyer's or seller's market.
Oil prices in New York have rallied after a surprisingly big drop in US crude inventories, even as higher output from Libya pressured the main London oil contract.
About 25 per cent of first home buyers have saved for more than five years before buying a property, according to a survey by financial services provider Mortgage Choice.
A PwC director has claimed the productivity of iron ore mining equipment in Australia has fallen 40 per cent in the last four years, and has sat behind the global average since 2012.
Western Australian Treasurer Mike Nahan has defended his government's optimistic outlook for the state's most valuable export commodity in the past financial year, saying iron ore prices are "bloody hard" to predict.
It is difficult not to sympathise, if not agree, with Pope Francis I's claim that the spate of conflicts around the globe today effectively form a “piecemeal” World War III.
Leading non-executive director Diane Smith-Gander has said a shake-out of the iron ore sector is almost unavoidable, while speaking at today's Business News Success & Leadership Series breakfast.
A new report from Curtin University has revealed Australia's charity sector is bringing in more than $100 billion each year and managing more than 2 million volunteers.
BGC has been knocked off the top spot in a ranking of Australia's largest home builders, but the Perth-based company remains the nation's biggest builder of detached houses.
The amount of money Australia reaps from resources and energy commodity exports is expected to fall this financial year, despite a pickup in volumes shipped overseas.
A joint venture between Ord River Resources and Dampier Gold has entered into a binding ore treatment agreement with Northern Star Resources for use of its Plutonic processing facility for an undisclosed sum.
The Singapore bidder for Australand will wrap up its takeover of the property developer by snapping up the remaining batch of securities it does not already own - a deal that thrusts the combined entity's Western Australian operations into the top 10 land developers.
The share market's gains for 2014 have been wiped out, the value of the country's biggest export is at a five-year low and the Aussie dollar has slipped below 89 US cents - all thanks to China.
Wall Street stocks have slumped for the third straight session as data showed a weakening eurozone economy and US tax rules to fight inversions hit pharmaceutical stocks.
