Toronto-based design and engineering services provider WSP Global has bought Balfour Beatty's New York-based professional services subsidiary, Parsons Brinkerhoff, for $1.45 billion.
US stocks have closed lower despite an early boost from the European Central Bank's move to further cut interest rates and launch an asset-purchase plan to beat back deflation pressures.
Oil prices have fallen amid volatile trading, as NATO chiefs met over the Ukraine crisis and the European Central Bank announced more rate cuts to boost the eurozone economy.
Court action filed by both Santos and Apache is set to continue in the Western Australian Supreme Court over several disagreements relating to a joint venture of gas fields offshore in the Carnarvon basin.
If Scotland votes for independence exactly two weeks from today, expect a revival in another part of the world that has had the occasional secession debate – Western Australia.
Leading mining lawyer Michael Blakiston has criticised Premier Colin Barnett's comments urging African mining leaders not to be intimidated by global mining companies and to ensure their citizens received a fair return for their resource exploitation.
Australia's trade deficit is narrowing thanks to a growing volume of iron ore exports, but is likely to stay in the red as the price of the country's biggest export falls.
Paladin Energy has backed its decision to place its Kayelekera uranium plant on care and maintenance in February and says the market fundamentals needed to restore it to economic production are now heading in the right direction.
Perth-based boutique investment firm NWQ Capital Management has reached the top of the ranks in risk-adjusted performance for its hedge fund, which invests in hedge-fund products in the Asia-Pacific.
Bankwest today launched its new charity, which will raise funds for community initiatives, as well as a scholarship program that aims to better the lives of Western Australians, and has pledged $1 million per year to the charity for five years.
Consumer confidence among Western Australian shoppers has only marginally improved in the last quarter, a Curtin Business School Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA survey of consumer confidence says.
KPMG associate director Nicole Lockwood has joined the new board of Infrastructure Australia, which recently became an independent statutory authority.
The Western Australian government is aiming for a quick sale of assets as it struggles to rein in debt, with the premier tipping the Perth Market Authority will be first to go.
Former Western Australian treasurer Troy Buswell has quit politics, citing his ongoing struggle with bipolar disorder and depression as the main reason for his resignation.
The Australian dollar is almost half a US cent higher as the chances of another interest rate cut by the central bank fades following solid gross domestic product (GDP) figures.
Gold prices edged higher on the European spot market Wednesday after a sharp drop in the previous session, but the market was unmoved by news of a ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine.
