US stocks have opened lower as investors digested economic data while monitoring the effects of the Iran war.
Purvi Agarwal and Twesha Dikshit
Analysts say the market has now entered a state of “backwardation” that suggests a risk premium has been baked into energy prices, despite traders anticipating a swift resolution to the conflict.
Chloe Taylor
The conflict in the Middle East is reviving the spectre of inflation and hobbling the global economy just as it was showing signs of strengthening at the start of the year, the OECD says.
William Horobin
Premier Roger Cook said West Australians were already making their own choices in response to soaring petrol prices, including turning to public transport and carpooling.
Katina Curtis
Western Mines Group has stitched up a savvy deal that could turn 348 million tonnes of waste rock at its Mulga Tank nickel project into revenue by supplying a stream of high-magnesium ore as offtake in WA.
Andrew Todd
Asian nations Australia relies on for refined fuels have started to implement emergency measures to protect their own domestic needs in response to the global energy crisis.
Caitlyn Rintoul
WA’s iron ore giants have no plans to halt mining as cyclone Narelle menaces the State’s North West, while one major port even opted not to clear its harbour in a ‘highly unusual’ move.
Adrian Rauso
Hospitals buckling under rising costs and lower revenue say a new Ombudsman report into private insurers bolsters their case for reform despite complaints falling on the previous year.
Simone Grogan
Walt Disney chief executive Josh D’Amaro hasn’t even been in his new job for one week and he’s already seen two, billion-dollar technology bets falter — with one of them unravelling entirely.
Christopher Palmeri and Thomas Buckley
The WA Treasurer has hit back at claims by her NSW counterpart accusing WA of being alone in thinking the current GST deal isn’t ‘busted’.
Oliver Lane
Qantas has made major changes to some of its most popular international routes.
Amy Cavender
With gales and rain hammering the North West late on Thursday, Chevron said Wheatstone is offline and one of Gorgon’s LNG trains is out of action.
Sean Smith
Pacgold has extended its big antimony-gold footprint in Far North Queensland to more than 30km in length, with rock chips from a new prospect returning high-grade results up to 18.5 grams per tonne gold.
The Australian sharemarket has steadied despite pressure from falling energy stocks and international uncertainty - but a “Covid-like” economic shock still looms.
Andrew Hedgman
On the day the BBC unveiled its new boss, US President Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on the British broadcaster over the editing of a documentary.
Nick Lester
A supply chain expert has warned a ‘perfect storm’ is about to hit WA as tropical Cyclone Narelle travels along the northern coastline to deliver a double-whammy to food producers amid the fuel crisis.
Georgia Campion
Corazon Mining has fired up the diamond drill rig at its Two Pools project in Western Australia, hunting high-grade gold extensions in a maiden program to unlock the site’s true structural potential.
Murray Ward
Rising petrol prices may be the first warning sign of a much wider supply crisis heading for Australian households.
Coles says it has brought extra stock into stores at risk of being cut-off due to road closures, including in the Mid West and Pilbara, as Cyclone Narelle closes in.
Cheyanne Enciso
Local investors are treading water as they assess the continued stand-off in the month-long US-Israel and Iran conflict that has decimated the Australian stock market.
Daniel Newell
Petrol companies will face massive fines if they are found guilty of ripping off Aussie motorists, under new laws passed on Thursday.
Ria Pandey and Nathan Schmidt
A 120-year-old heritage-listed home on Guildford Road is one step closer to demolition to make way for a social housing complex as a tug of war between the City of Vincent and the State reaches a climax.
Sophie Gannon
Premier1 has firmed up drill targets at its WA Abbotts North gold project after a gravity survey confirmed gold sitting in a key structural intersection, with maiden drilling planned for the coming months.
Lynas Rare Earths has linked up with Korea’s LS Eco Energy to work on developing a new factory in Vietnam that would turn the in-demand commodity into metals used in magnets.
