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FEATURE: An investment in each of the 10 largest capital raisings by companies in Western Australia during 2013 would be 14 per cent underwater at current prices, according to research conducted by Business News.

FEATURE: After rocketing to a $1 billion market capitalisation this year, Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd has been going from strength to strength.

FEATURE: The June quarter presented a broad range of transactions for corporate players, however a noticeable lack of direction remains.

Iron and gold exploration company Legacy Iron Ore has announced a 3:1 entitlement issue with a plan to obtain up to $25 million.

Shares in online travel business Wotif have jumped 25 per cent after global giant Expedia launched a $700 million takeover bid.

Health workers at Perth's biggest hospitals say they'll walk off the job in a series of rolling stoppages after the state government refused to talk about a new pay offer.

Perth-based oil and gas company Antares Energy has received a fresh $US300 million offer from an undisclosed party for its Permian Basin oil and gas assets in Texas, less than six months after it backed out of a previous sale agreement.

The Australian stock market was higher in early trade following on from Wednesday's strong gains and Wall Street hitting record highs overnight.

The Abbott government's paid parental leave scheme is expensive, unfair and will do nothing to boost numbers of working women, a new report argues.

The Australian dollar has regained some of last week's losses amid light trading volumes as the US celebrated the Independence Day holiday.

Asian markets have rallied after the United States said its economy created more than a quarter of a million jobs in June, sending Wall Street to new records and boosting the US dollar against the yen.

China's Baosteel and Aurizon are in control of miner Aquila Resources after increasing their stake to 81 per cent.

Kerman Contracting has won an $18 million contract to build two sample preparation laboratories for the Roy Hill iron ore project.

The share market has achieved a third straight day of gains, with miners leading the way.

Fiscal year 2014 saw record gold production for Evolution Mining, a Perth-based operation with five mines across Queensland and Western Australia.

For many business people the current conditions seem very challenging.

Norton Gold Fields is poised to succeed in its Bullabulling Gold takeover bid after the Perth explorer begrudgingly accepted the increased takeover offer of 8 cents per share.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA has launched a new website for businesses to air their issues with bureaucratic red tape.

Graphite and nickel exploration company Kibaran Resources has raised $3.1 million through a share placement, just months after it completed a similar placement in February.

In this week's edition of Business News Background, head of content Mark Pownall and other reporters discuss the top stories of the week, including Gina Rinehart's move into beef processing, Michae

Western Australian small-cap explorer Impact Minerals has announced a successful $2.59 million capital raising to fund drilling projects in New South Wales.

Perth-based online movie streaming and DVD rental provider Quickflix has completed a share placement and board restructure with the appointment of a new non-executive director and new corporate advisers.

Mid-tier accounting group ROCG has expanded its presence in Western Australia with a second Perth practice joining the network.

Jolimont-based Roxby Architects has won the George Temple Poole award at the WA architecture awards for its design of Toyota's Western Australian head office.

Woodside Petroleum has confirmed it will be the anchor tenant at Capital Square, signing a memorandum of understanding with the site's developer, AAIG.

The Australian Greens have urged environment minister Greg Hunt to listen to the large group of scientists and experts rejecting Colin Barnett's shark cull.

Telecommunications firm ZipTel has begun trading on the ASX today after completing a backdoor listing of former minerals explorer Skywards.

Woodside Petroleum has signed an agreement with London-based Chariot Oil & Gas to farm-in to the Doukkala basin off the coast of Morocco.

Australian stocks are higher for the third consecutive day, following the lead of US markets which rallied to fresh highs on strong jobs growth figures.

Gold prices have ended lower, after better-than-expected jobs data showed the US recovery may be gaining traction, prompting traders to take profits on the precious metal's recent gains.

The Australian dollar is lower following strong US jobs figures and comments from the Reserve Bank governor about the currency being too high.

Wall Street rode improving economic data to fresh records this week, spawning comparisons to July 4 fireworks on the eve of the US Independence Day holiday.