Aussie shares retreated from lunchtime highs to finish the day virtually unchanged despite a positive lead from Wall Street. Resources were popular with investors, while the drop in the price of crude saw a sell-off in energy stocks. In economic news, according to the ABS Australia’s trade deficit ...

Aussie shares followed a positive lead from Wall Street to be 0.6% in the black by midday. Property Trusts set the high water mark, while materials and resources tracked base metals higher.  In economic news, according to the ABS Australia’s trade deficit doubled in May to $556 million from the ...

BHP Billiton Ltd. will get an independent engineering assessment on its Perseverance nickel mine in WA, it said today on its Web-site. The company is confident its underground operations at Persever ...

Southern Cross Electrical Engineering Limited (SXE) announced that it has been awarded the low voltage electrical and instrumentation works as part of Tiwest’s titanium dioxide pigment plant expansion at Kwinana. The company said work is expected to commence in July 2009 and completed during the t ...

Electrical engineering company O'Donnell Griffin Rail (OGR) has secured a $96.5 million contract for rail signalling and relocation with BHP Billiton Iron Ore, the company announced this week. The ... ...