The Cap Raise Crucible looks at how gold raisings kept the brokers busy and some punters celebrating. Elsewhere, strategic cheques, fat fees and options have delivered mixed fortunes.

Shareholders in the country’s largest media company have delivered a protest vote against the company’s executive pay arrangements.

A chef who refused to put pineapple on pizza has failed to regain his job after submitting his unfair dismissal application late.

The airline is hiking airfares and making deeper cuts to domestic flights early next year to tackle rising fuel prices.

Critical Resources has started prospecting for lithium at its Vermillion Bay project in Ontario, Canada, just 70km from its eight-million-tonne Mavis Lake resource.

Big Hits looks at notable drill intercepts reported to the ASX this week, led by big shallow hits from Chalice Mining in the NT, BPM Minerals in WA, and Australian Gold and Copper in NSW.

Is the company dead? Will everything be on sale? And can shoppers still redeem gift cards at the department store stalwart?

Small businesses that supply the department store will take a financial hammering from the company’s dramatic collapse.

It’s no secret that schools, to a great extent, run on the goodwill of staff. But this is taking it too far.

Network Ten insists its cost-cutting drive is not a redundancy round. But it sounds a lot like one.

Billionaire Paul Little is having another stab at selling a development site overlooking prestigious Melbourne High School’s hockey pitch.

Both the Reserve Bank and government are copping blame for things out of their control. But bending to pressure might put us in a worse position.

Sydney’s T2 domestic terminal will soon offer lounge access to departing passengers regardless of airline, ticket class or frequent flyer status.

As results began to pour in on a bruising midterm election night for the Republicans, Trump picked an unlikely scapegoat.

The Australian sharemarket soared the most since April as the Democrats’ sweeping US election victory fuelled optimism the Iran war could end soon, sending oil prices plunging.

Kuniko has struck gold-silver mineralisation in all 11 drill holes across two campaigns at its NSW Commonwealth-Silica Hill project ahead of a December resource update.

ClearVue and US partner Silfab Solar have won a US$500,000 grant from the US Dept of Energy to develop high-efficiency solar spandrel technology for the US market.

David Jones’ owners have appointed administrators, which is expected to trigger an extensive restructure of the company and thousands of job losses.

The collapse of David Jones is expected to give its rival Myer a boost, as reflected in the surging Myer share price.

Right Resources has uncovered multiple tungsten targets at its Moonlight prospect in NSW, with rock chips returning high grades of up to 0.61 per cent tungsten trioxide and anomalous gold.

Major delays to NextDC’s flagship Melbourne facility left it vulnerable to an “opportunistic” raid by two rivals seeking to buy up to 10 per cent of the company.

This months-long pause isn’t carved into any legislation, but is an unofficial countrywide practice.

Aureka Ltd has landed a production licence for its Comstock gold project in Victoria, paving the way for a mining restart and a second ore source for its Wedderburn mill.

The world’s richest man invested heavily to back Republican candidates, much of it in Texas. He wasted his money and now faces obstacles to his artificial intelligence ambitions.

The country’s biggest business lender said household savings buffers remained strong, but arrears have deteriorated and economic growth is expected to slow.

Iran will bring the Gulf to its knees if Donald Trump unleashes a second round of Operation Fury.

A shopping trip to David Jones was once a rite of passage for Sydneysiders of a certain age and background. Now the landmark department store is facing the financial axe.

House prices not only determine where people live but the number of children in a family.

The Australian sharemarket extended its losses on Wednesday afternoon as US futures fell in response to the Democratic landslide in the US midterm elections.

The 188-year-old retailer is facing imminent collapse after crucial negotiations with its landlords failed.