US stocks have closed virtually unchanged as all eyes turn to the Federal Reserve and their much-anticipated interest rates decision.
Sinéad Carew and Johann M Cherian
Younger Australians are turning to an unlikely source for financial advice – one which could be creating dangerous pressures and unrealistic expectations.
Cameron Micallef
A crew of long-serving staff to Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, will gather in the Pilbara on Wednesday for a soiree’ to celebrate 10 years since Roy Hill shipped first ore.
Simone Grogan
WA businesses are ending 2025 on an optimistic note but it appears there is no relief in sight from higher operating costs and skills shortages.
Cheyanne Enciso
The average mortgage-holder's repayments could soon jump an extra $90 a month, with another Reserve Bank interest rate hike on the cards as early as February.
Jacob Shteyman
A controversial council proposal to elevate new estates in Busselton has led to developer claims it will add a $50,000 cost to each lot.
Kim Macdonald
The European Union is investigating Google for potential antitrust violations related to its AI models.
Kelvin Chan
Korean giant Samsung C&T has been in talks with the State Government this week weighing up an investment into a modular housing factory in Western Australia.
Matt Mckenzie
Chinese Premier Li Qiang is urging trading partners to reject rising protectionism, a day after his country posted a record $US1 trillion trade surplus.
Elaine Kurtenbach
Economists had expected the RBA to keep rates on hold, but the bank’s tone of extreme caution will rattle some. This was the RBA sounding the alarm.
The company behind the proposal for a gold mine north-east of Katanning has shared its environmental strategy in a bid to ease concerns over its potential impact on the Badgebup site.
Claire Middleton
Horizon Minerals has inked a land use agreement for almost all of the company’s 240 tenements in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields with the Marlinyu Ghoorlie Native Title Claimant group.
Michael Busbridge
Rio2 Limited is acquiring the Condestable copper-producing mine in Peru for a total of US$217 million, instantly transforming the company into a diversified Latin American precious-and-base-metals producer.
Doug Bright
In a widening series of lawsuits over the collapse of First Guardian and the Master Shield Fund, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission claims Diversa did not conduct adequate due diligence.
Sean Smith
The Australian sharemarket has plunged after the central bank chief delivered a shock warning to investors – leaving every sector in the red.
BHP is selling nearly half of its share in the Pilbara infrastructure powering its WA iron ore operations for $3 billion in a balance-sheet bolstering exercise.
Four years after architect Barry Baltinas revealed plans for luxury apartments on Cottesloe beachfront, a builder has finally been appointed
Kim Macdonald with additional reporting Liam Murphy
A deal has been signed to supply natural gas which is usually flared off into the air to meet the needs of domestic users and avoid power outages.
Lloyd Jones
Pilot Energy is in the final stages of a farm-out process for its wholly-owned offshore WA-481-P gas exploration permit on WA’s west coast, with offers due to close before the end of the month.
TMK Energy has continued to make solid progress on its pressure build-up tests at the company’s Gurvantes coal seam gas project in Mongolia, increasing gas flow rates by a whopping 18 per cent in November.
Michele Bullock has revealed a rate hike was discussed for 2026, after the Reserve Bank left interest rates on hold at its final meeting for 2025. NAB says a February hike is now a real possibility.
Stephen Johnson
Malaysian Airlines has been ordered by a court to pay compensation to the families of eight passengers killed when flight MH370 mysteriously disappeared.
Staff Writers
Bapcor shares have been hammered after the Autobarn owner issued its second profit downgrade in less than two months following ‘weaker trading performance in October and November’.
The Reserve Bank has kept the cash rate on hold after its final meeting for the year, but borrowers remain on edge for what is to come in 2026.
