Auric Mining has locked in $17 million to accelerate its WA gold growth strategy, including drilling at its Munda, Union Jack and newly acquired Iron Maiden projects.

Flagship Minerals secured an option over the district-scale Fortuna Valle copper-gold project in Chile’s prolific Coquimbo region, boasting widespread historical drill hits.

The ‘peanut butter raise’ usually gets spread evenly, but there are always a few extra crunchy bits for those who can make the right case.

Dalaroo Metals is set to drill its high-grade Bondoukou gold discovery in Côte d’Ivoire, with a rig now mobilising to site to test extensions of an 18m hit grading 7.31 g/t gold.

Nvidia’s board is believed to be meeting to discuss the future of its founder and CEO following reports of multiple extramarital affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy.

Miro Sciences has cleared a TGA manufacturing hurdle for its Crohn’s trial, with the regulator inspecting its partner’s facility ahead of a planned Phase 2 study for its StemSmart cell therapy.

The scare over a liquidity crisis in a state-owned company in Guangdong has rippled through China’s debt markets and shone a light on the financial pressure in its local governments.

The corporate regulator has started legal proceedings against the nation’s biggest bank, alleging that it misled 42,000 business customers and overcharged them about $8.5 million in fees.

The bank first reported problems to the regulator in 2019, but did not fully fix them for another seven years.

I see now the error of my bargain-seeking ways and promise to do all my Christmas shopping with DJs, if I can find a store that’s still open.

BYD apologised for an assembly mistake that meant some of its Great Tang electric sport utility vehicles had their front and rear wheel rims installed in reverse.

The video game is the first new instalment in 13 years of one of the best-selling entertainment franchises in history. Australian businesses expect staff absenteeism to soar.

David Jones has told suppliers and staff that half of its stores will close as the receivers in charge of the embattled department store owner attempt to make the business viable again.

The Australian sharemarket edged up in Wednesday’s session, erasing early losses and shrugging off falls on Wall Street, where inflation figures spooked investors.

Augustus Minerals has hit a 71-metre-wide gold zone from 15m deep at its Music Well project in WA, with the rods now spinning at a new target with rock chips up to 30.4g/t.

Orbit Resources has started partner-funded drilling at its Goodrich copper-gold project in NSW, targeting extensions to a previous porphyry discovery that hit 136.55m of mineralisation.

The US president’s demands for falling interest rates are going to be ignored when the Federal Reserve responds to last month’s hotter-than-expected inflation rate.

Larvotto Resources has hit high-grade gold-antimony up to 9.61g/t gold equivalent at the Freehold prospect in its NSW Hillgrove project, doubling the mineralised strike to 700m.

Citing the impact of AI, the airline will send 850 back-office jobs, “mostly” to India, through professional services firm Accenture.

Locksley Resources has grown its NSW copper-gold footprint to 1,000sq km after securing a new licence hosting an undrilled 10km geological structure on the prospective Tritton Trend.

TSX-listed Rio2 Ltd banked US$115M in quarterly revenue and US$50M in EBITDA as its Peruvian copper mine delivered and its weather-affected Chilean gold continued to ramp up in Chile.

The corporate regulator said customers should not have to scrutinise every transaction and that Macquarie had failed to prevent confusion to customers.

When bonuses are tied to profits, company leaders make short-term decisions that benefit themselves.

Data from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia attributed the small increase in the number of people struggling to inflation and rising interest rates.

Perth AI developer Capability X is heading to the ASX with $12 million in the bank and multiple devices deployed, using technology to target industrial safety and automation.

What can governments do about cost of living? Nothing that is quick or painless.

Ben Nothling, a sixth-generation descendant of the Welsh entrepreneur David Jones, owns a shoe business. He’s owed $130,000 by the collapsed retailer.

At the heart of the controversy surrounding one of the world’s biggest companies is a former television journalist suspected of spying for the Chinese government.

China is again in the midst of a sharemarket rout. The blame game has already begun.

The Australian sharemarket had a strong session after US President Donald Trump said the Iran war “is effectively over”, boosting hopes for an end to the conflict that has driven up global energy costs.