Westpac's fiscal first-half results last week showed customer deposits at March 31 were up 7.0% compared with the same period a year earlier. That lifted the deposit-to-loan ratio at Australia's ...

Japan's Sumitomo Metal Mining (SMM) said on Monday it has agreed to buy a 30% stake in the Winu copper-gold project in Western Australia from Rio Tinto , .

Foreign investors have been turning to Australia's domestically focused stocks, choosing an often overlooked market as a ...