The S&P 500 has closed lower, dipping from a record high and weighed down by Applied Materials, while investors digested weaker-than-expected retail sales data.
The vociferous response from WA political and business leaders to the Productivity Commission's interim GST report was as swift as it was predictable come Friday afternoon.
Australia's share market has posted its worst week since April as investors take money off the table amid softer commodity prices and earnings uncertainty.
Homes in the western suburbs of Perth continue to sell at a rapid pace, with one Cottesloe mansion set to sell for $11.75 million and another selling for $11 million.
The Royal Agricultural Society of WA has moved to cancel the Perth Royal Show's poultry competition over concerns it could become a bird flu super-spreader event.
OPINION: WA is competing for skilled workers, but competitive salaries and opportunities will not be enough if they cannot afford to establish a life here.
Former Woodside Energy director Melinda Cilento has been appointed to the Reserve Bank of Australia's Monetary Policy Board, adding further WA resources experience to the rate-setting panel.
A report by the Productivity Commission has denounced the current GST distribution system, calling it “perverse”, only of benefit to Western Australia and leaving the federal government with an “open-ended fiscal liability".
Equus Energy has executed a decade-long gas supply deal with project backer Alcoa, making the state's largest domestic gas user its foundation customer.
New locomotives ready to take to WA's freight rail network are equipped with “world-leading” lighting and will play a key role in delivering the state's bumper crops to market.
Levies will remain in place on Australian goods to the US for now, but the prime minister says Donald Trump will consider scrapping the measure on its ally.
The S&P 500 has notched a record-high close, fuelled by advances in Sandisk and other heavyweight technology stocks, as tame producer price inflation data supported expectations the Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates at its September meeting.
Perth-based medtech firm OncoRes Medical has named a finalist for a Prix Galien Award, a WA first in an award widely regarded as the Nobel Prize equivalent for the life sciences sector.
A senior communities asset manager, ASX-listed Eureka Group Holdings, is in the process of acquiring Mandurah Coastal Holiday Park for $18.4 million, in a deal comprising 168 dwellings with approval for a further 66 homes to be built.
Australia's share market has fallen for a second session, as a handful of soft earnings results and a sell-down in Commonwealth Bank and mining stocks dragged on the exchange.
Finbar is one step closer to building apartments in West Leederville after an assessment panel's tick of approval, with the developer estimating the project's end value at $265 million.
The ASX-listed logistics and transport services company has announced it is set to purchase a 2.7-hectare site in the tightly held industrial suburb of Welshpool, looking to relocate its interstate transport business after redeveloping the land.
