Wesfarmers Limited

Queensland Bauxite Ltd (ASX:QBL) provides the Company's Quarterly Activities Report.

The Board of Queensland Bauxite Limited (ASX:QBL) is pleased to advise that Red Tractor have now supplied hundreds of Coles stores around Australia with various products and oil blends that have hemp ingredients included exclusively supplied by QBL's subsidiary Medical cannabis Limited and its hemp seed food subsidiary VitaHemp Pty Ltd.

The 2017 East Coles Corporate Performance Research has been completed and the Top 10 Finalists from the S&P/ASX100 for the 'Best CFO's' category for 2017 (not in ranked order) are: APA, BTT, CTX, JBH, JHG, MQA, QUB, TPM, WES. The Top 10 Finalists from the S&P/ASX101-200 for the 'Best CFO's' category for 2017 (not in ranked order) are: A2M, ALU, BAP, CGC, FPH, GUD, MTR, MIN, RWC, SDF.

The 2017 East Coles Corporate Performance Research has been completed and the Results are in. The Top 10 Finalists from the S&P/ASX100 for the 'Best CEO's' category for 2017 (not in ranked order) are: AGL, ALL, APA, GMG, JHG, MQG, RHC, SEK, TPM, WES.

The 2017 East Coles Corporate Performance Research has been completed and the Results are in. The Top 10 Finalists from the S&P/ASX100 for the 'Best Companies' category for 2017 (not in ranked order) are: AGL, AMC, APA, BTT, CSL, JHG, RHC, TCL, TPG, WES.

SEEK Limited (ASX:SEK) (OTCMKTS:SKLTY) today announced that Vanessa Wallace has been appointed to the Board as a non-executive Director, effective from 1 March 2017.

Michael is the Managing Director and founder of Fairmont Equities. With over 10 years experience in Financial Services, the majority of his career has been with Novus Capital and Macquarie Bank.

Australian energy company, Blackham Resources Limited (ASX:BLK) is pleased to announce a significant increase in the coal resource at its Scaddan Energy Project in Western Australia. Scaddan and Zanthus combined resources now contains over 10,000 petajoules of energy and has the potential to produce approximately 860 million barrels of oil equivalent, consisting mainly of a clean diesel product.

The Australian shares opened slightly lower on Thursday despite Wall Street's positive lead. The focus of the local market continued to be the company earnings reports. In early trade, both the S&P/ASX200 index and the All Ordinaries fell 0.1 per cent.

The Australian shares today opened firmer after Wall Street Friday extended gains on US companies' strong earnings. The S&P/ASX200 index rose 0.95 per cent to touch 4500 points level shortly after the opening bell. Gains were led by health sector and consumer staples sector.