US stocks have finished sharply lower after the International Monetary Fund trimmed its global growth forecast while Germany posted a second straight day of disappointing economic data.
The share market ended an eventful day slightly lower, with gains by the big miners offset by falls from the banks, retailers and health care companies.
Interest rates don't appear to be moving any time soon, with recent falls in the Australian dollar still failing to impress the Reserve Bank of Australia.
US stocks have finished modestly lower as investor caution returned to the market ahead of Wednesday's unofficial kick-off of third-quarter company earnings reports.
The state government has announced plans for the private sector to design, build, finance and maintain eight new public schools, using a contracting model that has previously been employed in four other states.
Miro Advisors has been selected by oil and gas explorer New Standard Energy to manage the farm-out of its Western Australian exploration acreage, continuing four years of rapid growth for the Perth advisory firm, as detailed in this week's edition of Business News.
A University of Western Australia doctoral student has found major banks were exploiting price sensitive information through the London Gold Fix and has predicted the demise of the system before the end of the year.
The Australian share market has closed lower as low iron ore prices weighed upon the big miners and the weaker Australian dollar continued to deter foreign investors.
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Wall Street stocks have barrelled higher, cutting the week's losses, after the Labour Department reported the US economy gained a strong 248,000 jobs in September.
Wall Street stocks have finished little changed, rallying somewhat from a big mid-session drop as investors looked ahead to the US jobs report for September.
A Perth based digital healthcare startup, ResApp Diagnostics has signed a heads of agreement to be fully acquired by Adam Sierakowski’s Narhex Life Sciences.
Wall Street stocks have finished sharply lower following mixed US economic data amid worsening anxiety over global economic growth and the first confirmed Ebola case in the United States.
More than 230 Westpac jobs in Western Australia and Queensland will be axed with the bank planning to close two customer contact centres in the states in March next year.
