BIS Shrapnel provided some rare good news for the residential property sector this week when it forecast a rise in Perth housing prices and demand for new homes.
QUEENSLAND-BASED Breez Finance is targeting Western Australia's fast-growing regional centres as it finalises plans to launch a new cooperative lender early next year.
LONG-TIME business partners Con Berbatis and George Atzemis are best known in property circles for their retail investments, but sluggish consumer spending has sharpened the pair's focus on Perth's
Monthly trade figures usually prompt talk of coal, iron ore and the like, but this focus on minerals is a distraction from another important element of the trade data.
THE local horticulture sector is being urged to evaluate export opportunities after two major players secured contracts with Singapore's largest supermarket group.
WHAT makes a group of venture capital investors from California travel halfway around the globe to a mining town in their search for technology opportunities?
Mike Young-chaired junior explorer Cassini Resources says it is seeking to raise $3 million through an initial public offering, to fund exploration programs at its portfolio of minerals tenements i
Seven Group says the current uncertainty in global markets may prompt the media and earthmoving equipment company to consider further impairment charges on its investments.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has defended the $23-a-tonne starting price for carbon emissions, after the price in Europe's carbon market fell to between $10 and $13 in recent months.
Australian shares gained more than one per cent with local investors encouraged by Wall Street's overnight rise on news Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi would resign.
US stock markets scored robust gains Tuesday after the embattled Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, said he would resign after austerity measures are approved.
Silvio Berlusconi says he will stand down as Italian prime minister once key reforms aimed at calming market turmoil are adopted this month, after his coalition lost its majority in parliament.
The state government has released more than 15,000 hectares of agricultural land near Kununurra, in the first stage of the Ord-East Kimberley Expansion Project.
The leaders of Australia's energy and electricity companies have welcomed the new carbon pricing scheme, saying it might reduce rather than increase their costs.
Western Australia's Chamber of Commerce and Industry has welcomed a decision by Fair Work Australia that blocks unions from representing employees that do not fall under its membership.
The Australian share market closed firmer after a positive US lead but trading volumes were low as investors sat on the sidelines as anxiety over eurozone debt continued.
Treasurer Wayne Swan says the government will argue for its proposed mining tax as strenuously as it did for the carbon price legislation passed by parliament today.
Civil contracting group Ertech has won a $50 million general services contract with Chevron for works at its Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on Barrow Island.
A Chinese government-owned mineral exploration and development group has agreed to invest $13.4 million in Perth-based resources company TNG, funds which will underpin test work for TNG's processin
