Comment & Analysis
Michael Pascoe
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RBA sounds the all-clear
October 06, 2009 | Not only is Australia's economic emergency over, we're very nearly back to normal, according the Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens.
CBD
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McCabe scores a deal on way out
October 06, 2009 | Debt-stricken Valad Property took advantage of yesterday's holiday to announce the departure of another two directors, writes Scott Rochfort.
Full Disclosure / Mark Hawthorne
![Mark Hawthorne](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/03/06/90147/Mark Hawthorne-60x90-90x60.jpg)
Miner Greenland buries bad news in report
October 06, 2009 | Greenland Minerals and Energy reveals a $164 million blow-out as a result of issuing options to corporate adviser Gravner.
Ian Verrender
![Ian Verrender 2008-01](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/03/06/90127/ianverrender-60x90 2008-01-90x60.jpg)
Babcock fan Schwarzenegger turns from fan to Terminator
October 06, 2009 | Ah, the halcyon days of 2007, when markets were running hot and the living was easy.
Insider
Standard Chartered's loss might be ANZ's gain
October 06, 2009 | A breakdown in RBS talks may open another opportunity for ANZ to expand in Asia.
Malcolm Maiden
![Malcolm Maiden 2008-01](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/03/06/90110/Malcolm Maiden 2008-01-90x60.jpg)
Reserve's chef has own recipes
October 06, 2009 | The Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens made an inspired choice in August when he attached the adjective emergency to the cash rate, which has been sitting at 3 per cent since April after being cut by 4.25 percentage points in seven months.
Malcolm Maiden
![Malcolm Maiden 2008-01](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/03/06/90110/Malcolm Maiden 2008-01-90x60.jpg)
The emergency is over; now all eyes turn to rates
October 06, 2009 | Will Glenn Stevens continue to depart from convention?
Garimpeiro / Barry FitzGerald
![Barry FitzGerald](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/02/06/80874/Barry FitzGerald-90x60.jpg)
Bass books $8.5m result from potent mixture of metals
October 05, 2009 | The group's strategy since its October 2005 float is working a treat.
Jamie Freed
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BBI refinance bid hangs on $600m from institutions
October 05, 2009 | Babcock & Brown Infrastructure appears likely to be in a position to update the market on its recapitalisation deal by tomorrow or Wednesday.
John Garnaut
![John Garnaut](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/02/06/80871/John Garnaut-90x60.jpg)
China revises its funds targets
October 05, 2009 | Rejections in Australia have the Asian giant looking elsewhere.
Ross Gittins
![Ross Gittins](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2009/06/30/611367/rossgittins-90x60.jpg)
Easing back from the emergency rate low
October 05, 2009 | The Reserve knows it's risky to keep interest rates so exceptionally low.
Ruth Williams
![Ruth Williams](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/02/06/80880/ruthwilliams90-60-90x60.jpg)
Investors differ on disclosure
October 05, 2009 | A plan to push institutional investors to disclose their voting records on executive pay has met with a mixed response from super industry groups.
Paddy Manning
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Green, but in the pink financially
October 03, 2009 | Cutting emissions is unlikely to hurt International Power.
Elizabeth Knight
![Elizabeth Knight](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/02/06/80867/Elizabeth Knight-90x60.jpg)
A poisoned well: banks and their borrowers
October 02, 2009 | A legacy of the global financial crisis will be a shift in relations between those who operate in debt and equity markets.
Harold Mitchell
![Harold Mitchell](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2009/10/02/766429/harold-mitchell-90x60-90x60.jpg)
It must have been the budgie smugglers, old boy
October 02, 2009 | I've had a thought that the good old days weren't so bad after all.
Ian McIlwraith
![Ian McIlwraith](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/08/06/174823/bd_Macca_90x60-90x60.gif)
Heat is on to mine Kyrgyzstan's uranium
October 02, 2009 | The question is which company will end up with the mining rights.
Leonie Wood
![Leonie Wood](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2009/09/03/712177/90_leoniewood-90x60.jpg)
Myer's model behaviour no proof of value
September 28, 2009 | Myer's float should be grounded in analysis of financial matrix underpinning the company.
David Symons
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Recruitment gets back on the job
September 26, 2009 | There is nothing like a couple of takeovers to breathe life into an unloved sector. And with acquisitions still thin on the ground in the broader market, two deals in the struggling recruitment sector make it a mini hot spot of corporate activity.
Julian Lee
![Julian Lee](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2009/06/25/603401/julianlee-90x60-90x60.jpg)
Time to jump on the mobile phone ad bandwagon
September 25, 2009 | No other device can claim to get as close to a user as a mobile phone.
Christopher Webb
![Christopher Webb](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/02/06/80872/Christopher Webb-90x60.jpg)
Bargains aplenty amid warning against victory call
September 20, 2009 | Investment banker turned global fund manager, Christopher Mackay, is not getting carried away with the run-up in global markets and is wary about short-term prospects.
Leon Gettler
![Leon Gettler](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/02/06/80878/Leon Gettler-90x60.jpg)
Uncertainty clouds emissions trading future
September 18, 2009 | The many imponderables include whether the carbon market will, in fact, work.
Max Newnham
![Max Newnham](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/02/06/80873/Max Newnham-90x60.jpg)
Sell now or wait? Consider capital gains tax
September 18, 2009 | There are many tax advantages associated with funds invested through a superannuation fund.
Michael West
![Michael West](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/03/06/90145/Michael West-60x90-90x60.jpg)
Wheeler-dealers laughing all the way to the bank
September 15, 2009 | THE party rolls on. Just one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and the most tumultuous days in the markets since the Great Depression, the bonuses are back, the debts have shifted from private to public sectors, and little seems to have changed.
Planet Wall Street
![Planet Wall St](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/08/20/184785/90_planetwallst-90x60.gif)
This Keen professor overlooked by MSM
September 10, 2009 | How one of our premier economists can find an audience of 250 million but pass unremarked by our business press.
Stephen Mayne
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Elders caps worst earnings year on record
September 04, 2009 | When Elders gets around to declaring its $400m loss, we'll have concluded the worst earnings season in memory.
Ian Verrender
![Ian Verrender 2008-01](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/03/06/90127/ianverrender-60x90 2008-01-90x60.jpg)
Sound of two schemes falling
May 19, 2009 | For the past quarter of a century the approach of June has brought a deluge of rural investment schemes all designed to achieve just one thing - a tax deduction.
Kenneth Davidson
![Kenneth Davidson](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/02/06/80877/Kenneth Davidson-90x60.jpg)
Time the sun set on carbon scheme
May 04, 2009 | There are better options than carbon pollution reduction schemes.Business, marketing and work blogs
Lindsay Tanner
![Lindsay Tanner](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/06/05/122306/th_TANNER-90x60.jpg)
Management Line: Leon Gettler
![Leon Gettler](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2009/05/27/542849/leon-90x60-90x60.jpg)
Enterprise: Valerie Khoo
![Valerie Khoo](http://web.archive.org./web/20091006103623im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2009/05/27/542856/valeriekhoo-90x60-90x60.jpg)
All Men are Liars: Sam De Brito
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