BHP Billiton and striking workers at its Escondida copper mine have resumed talks in an effort to reach a wage agreement.

Fortescue Metals and Apollo Global are reportedly among the bidders for Wesfarmers's Australian coal operations.

Companies mentioned the weather 354 times but fund managers wonder whether the answer is really blowing in the wind.

Brisbane-based Qantas engineers have spent the best part of the past month installing sensitive atmospheric monitoring sensors on a Hawaiian Airlines Airbus A330 in a bid to fill a major gap in global climate research.

Company profits have surged to record highs at the same time wages suffered their sharpest decline in eight years.