A Perth entrepreneur had a sink or swim moment when hosting family friends on his 58-foot boat Arafura to watch January’s SailGP race off the Fremantle coast.
Demand for gold exceeded 5000 tonnes for the first time, reaching a record 5002 tonnes in 2025, the World Gold Council reports.
Staff Writers
US President Donald Trump says he will announce his preferred candidate to replace Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Saturday AEDT.
Andrea Shalal and Bo Erickson
Chinese interests that defied government orders to sell down their stakes in rare earths developer Northern Minerals have been fined $14 million by the Federal Court.
Adrian Rauso
Horizon Minerals has generated another quarter of strong cash flows from gold sales, banking $23.3M from 3689 ounces sold and ending the period with a healthy $37.5M cash balance.
Andrew Todd
The boss of non-profit St John of God hopes to lock in the sale of Mount Lawley Hospital to the State Government within months.
Matt Mckenzie
Australian shares have tumbled as commodity prices suddenly reversed and speculation mounted about Donald Trump’s next Federal Reserve chair appointment.
Cameron Micallef
The Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Apollo Minerals, which dusted off the historic high-grade Salau tungsten mine in France with a fresh five-year permit.
Kaiser Reef has delivered a robust December quarter, lifting its cash position by $13.7 million to $43.1 million, while posting solid gold production from its flagship Henty gold mine in Tasmania.
Doug Bright
Joe Stiglitz is a bit of a rock star in left-leaning economic circles, but his suggestions to make housing more affordable didn't seem to convince Jim Chalmers.
Jacob Shteyman
Warren Buffett’s massive bet on Apple has proven the great investor right again, as the company posted blistering iPhone sales in the December quarter.
Tom Richardson
Venus Metals has unlocked fresh exploration upside at its Bellchambers gold project near Sandstone in WA’s Mid West, with a CSIRO-led hyperspectral study pinpointing new zones closely linked to gold potential.
There will be no surprises from Australian retailers during the February reporting season, according to a major analyst, with results tipped to be in-line with expectations.
Cheyanne Enciso
Inflation data this week added fuel the fire as the RBA mulls a rate rise at next week’s meeting. Now moves by the markets suggest it could be a certainty.
David Finnerty
THE ECONOMIST: The acronyms thrown around at world’s premier adult entertainment conference include AI, but also BDSM.
China and Hong Kong stocks tumbled after a sharp drop in gold prices sparked a broad-based selloff across the markets.
A steep sell-off in gold stocks and other miners has dragged the local bourse lower on the last trading day of January and wiped out most of the week's gains.
Adrian Black
Premier1 has locked up full ownership of one of the Yalgoo greenstone belt’s last remaining gold packages in Western Australia not already in the hands of a multi-billion-dollar gold producer.
An award-winning construction firm has been forced into liquidation, with creditors appointing an insolvency firm and trading immediately halted.
Andrew Hedgman
Resmed has beaten expectations with $2 billion in second-quarter revenue and says weight loss drugs are actually boosting sales, rather than hurting them.
Derek Rose
Bitcoin’s ‘digital gold’ promise is unravelling as traders forgo the token for surging metals, hurting a narrative that once defined the asset’s macro appeal.
David Pan and Muyao Shen
Apple saw particularly strong results in China, including Taiwan and Hong Kong. CEO Tim Cook says demand for the new iPhone 17 ‘was just simply staggering’.
Kif Leswing
A pub baron and his family are set to become the owners of conservative agenda-setting talkback stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
Callum Godde
