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Michael Pascoe

Michael Pascoe

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.

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CBD

CBD

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.

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Full Disclosure / Mark Hawthorne

Mark Hawthorne

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.

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Ian Verrender

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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.

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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.

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Malcolm Maiden

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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.

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Malcolm Maiden

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The emergency is over; now all eyes turn to rates

October 06, 2009 | Will Glenn Stevens continue to depart from convention?

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Garimpeiro / Barry FitzGerald

Barry FitzGerald

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.

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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.

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John Garnaut

John Garnaut

China revises its funds targets

October 05, 2009 | Rejections in Australia have the Asian giant looking elsewhere.

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Ross Gittins

Ross Gittins

Easing back from the emergency rate low

October 05, 2009 | The Reserve knows it's risky to keep interest rates so exceptionally low.

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Ruth Williams

Ruth Williams

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.

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Paddy Manning

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Green, but in the pink financially

October 03, 2009 | Cutting emissions is unlikely to hurt International Power.

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Elizabeth Knight

Elizabeth Knight

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.

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Harold Mitchell

Harold Mitchell

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.

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Ian McIlwraith

Ian McIlwraith

Heat is on to mine Kyrgyzstan's uranium

October 02, 2009 | The question is which company will end up with the mining rights.

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Leonie Wood

Leonie Wood

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.

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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.

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Julian Lee

Julian Lee

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.

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Christopher Webb

Christopher Webb

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.

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Leon Gettler

Leon Gettler

Uncertainty clouds emissions trading future

September 18, 2009 | The many imponderables include whether the carbon market will, in fact, work.

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Max Newnham

Max Newnham

Sell now or wait? Consider capital gains tax

September 18, 2009 | There are many tax advantages associated with funds invested through a superannuation fund.

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Michael West

Michael West

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.

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Planet Wall Street

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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.

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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.

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Ian Verrender

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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.

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Kenneth Davidson

Kenneth Davidson

Time the sun set on carbon scheme

May 04, 2009 | There are better options than carbon pollution reduction schemes.

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Lindsay Tanner

Lindsay Tanner Lindsay Tanner is the federal MP for Melbourne in Victoria and is Minister for Finance and Deregulation.

Management Line: Leon Gettler

Leon Gettler Leon Gettler is a contributor to The Age, specialising on management issues. His interests include business ethics, corporate governance and the intricacies of the US Sarbanes-Oxley ruling.

Enterprise: Valerie Khoo

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All Men are Liars: Sam De Brito

Sam De Brito Sam de Brito has spent more than a decade writing for TV, film and newspapers. In his first book, No Tattoos Before You're Thirty, he offered advice to his unborn children. In his latest offerings, The Lost Boys and Building a Better Bloke, he takes the pulse of Aussie manhood. Now it's your turn as he expounds on the business of being a bloke.