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Australia's Export Finance and Insurance Corporation has found that exporters are growing in confidence, with 95 per cent of small and medium enterprise exporters predicting their overseas sales to either remain the same or grow in the next 12 months.

Apartment developer Finbar Group is set to lodge another record net profit, with a $36 million result in FY14 to be its eighth consecutive year of profit growth.

The Abbott government's carbon tax repeal bills have been defeated in the Senate.

The Australian stock market is trading higher ahead of the release of key employment figures.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has raised concerns about the sale of four Western Australian Supa IGA stores to the Wesfarmers-owned Coles.

Australia's unemployment rate has risen back to 6 per cent amid an increase in the number of people looking for work.

Perth technology entrepreneur Zhenya Tsvetnenko is taking another of his ventures public with a second reverse takeover of a struggling mining stock in four months.

Global oil prices have continued their slide from late-June peaks, despite a sharper-than-expected drop in US crude inventories.

US stocks have scored moderate gains following a solid kickoff to earnings season from Alcoa, and Federal Reserve meeting minutes signalling an end to its bond-buying program in October.

Gold prices have extended earlier gains after Federal Open Market Committee meeting minutes showed that central bank officials were shifting focus away from raising interest rates as the key strategy for tightening monetary policy.Gold lifts after FOMC minutes

The Australian dollar is higher on greenback weakness after the US Federal Reserve's policy committee said it would not begin raising interest rates for "a considerable time".

Recently-listed Perth-based education provider iCollege will today launch a portfolio of 26 online courses, seven weeks ahead of schedule.

The appearance of mining magnate Clive Palmer with climate campaigner Al Gore in federal parliament's great hall still has many scratching their heads.

The state government's tight 2014 budget and widespread job cuts in the resources sector have put the clamps on positive sentiment in the property sector, according to the Property Council of Australia.

Final approval has been granted for gold production at Kingsrose Mining's Talang Santo mine in South Sumatra, Indonesia.

Australian stocks fell heavily on a day where the negative mood among US investors overnight carried into local trading, with the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closing 58.4 points, or 1.06 per cent, lower at 5,452.5.

Phosphate and glauconite explorer Potash West has completed an $800,000 placement to fund development of its Dandaragan Trough project near Perth.

Perth gold producer Resolute Mining has released a positive production report, which raised its share price by nearly 7 per cent.

Fewer Australians are spiralling into bankruptcy, with figures showing the lowest level of personal insolvency in almost 10 years.

Most economists would rightly view the official employment figures each month as something of a lottery, but what lies ahead is a fairly safe bet: inadequate jobs growth.

The Department of Health's $6 million bungle at Fiona Stanley Hospital is just one example of government agencies dropping the ball on information technology projects.

WA's wine producers have a new strategy to boost business.

The Tourism Council WA has attributed the creation of 2,000 jobs in the sector to a major rise in domestic tourism.

Shares in Northern Star Resources have risen more than 9 per cent after the gold miner issued a better than expected June quarter production report.

Baskin Robbins is making a renewed push for expansion by opening 20 new stores across Australia within the next year, with the goal of increasing its store network by 25 per cent.

Greenland Minerals and Energy has closed its fully underwritten $8.9 million rights issue oversubscribed.

Baosteel and Aurizon now control more than 90 per cent of Aquila Resources and will move to compulsorily acquire the rest of its shares.

The Australian stock market is lower following a sell off on Wall Street.

US stocks have fallen sharply with the tech-rich Nasdaq suffering the deepest declines as the second-quarter earnings season kicked off.

The Australian dollar has rallied above 94 US cents as the greenback continues to weaken.

Union settles with BGC over case of the concrete pour

Oil prices have extended their losing streak as concerns ease over supply disruptions from the Middle East, with Libyan exports set to resume and Iraqi unrest not yet affecting exports.