Why cats are a man's best friend
One man's love affair with a feline called Princess Clementine Kitty Cat Custard.
There's a flaw in Australia's economic growth report
Malcolm Maiden Australia's December quarter economic report card was better than expected, but income growth is still a missing ingredient.
BHP close to a breakthrough deal over Brazilian disaster
Malcolm Maiden BHP and its partner Vale are closing in on an agreement with the Brazilian government over last November's Samarco dam breach disaster. It is a key moment.
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Woolworths' Brad Banducci gets the toughest job in retailing
Malcolm Maiden Is Brad Banducci the best person for leading Woolworths, or just the best one available?
Wesfarmers reflects the ebb and flow of profit reporting season
Malcolm Maiden The December-half profit-reporting season is reaching a point where rats and mice emerge, but the news so far is no worse than feared.
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Qantas soars as BHP sinks
Malcolm Maiden There's a good news, bad news feel to these big results.
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BHP Billiton slips as Qantas soars
Malcolm Maiden This global rout affects our biggest companies in very different ways.
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Telstra feeling NBN pressure now
Malcolm Maiden The profit result that Telstra announced this week puts its $11 billion deal to co-operate with the NBN into a sober perspective.
New infrastructure plan is political pie in the sky
Malcolm Maiden Infrastructure Australia's new 15-year plan may be missing a crucial ingredient – political will.
Profit season is not following the bear script
Malcolm Maiden The December profit season has just begun, but a theme is already emerging.
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Five reasons to avoid shares, three reasons to buy
Malcolm Maiden There are reasons to run a mile from shares right now, but there are also reasons to buy.
Rio Tinto may be down, but its iron heart is still beating
Malcolm Maiden Rio Tinto's underlying earnings halved and its annual dividend is to be scrapped, but even that understates how far the big miners have fallen.
What crisis? Commonwealth Bank's profit makes bank share sell-off look stupid
Malcolm Maiden CBA's $4.8 billion December-half profit makes the massive selling of bank shares on Tuesday look rather stupid.
Share market plunge is in danger of becoming self-fulfilling
Malcolm Maiden The world is not as sick as the global bank share rout suggests.
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Malcolm Turnbull's NBN is rolling according to plan – the new plan, that is
Malcolm Maiden On its own terms, the Turnbull government's national broadband project hits its marks in the December half.
Malcolm Turnbull was right, the way to fix the tax system is to broaden it
Malcolm Maiden There is no single 'Big Fix' for Australia's tax system, however, there are a few smaller things we can do.
Reserve Bank's inaction on rates is the right action this time
Malcolm Maiden With things as they are in the global economy, watching and waiting is the right call.
BHP boss Andrew Mackenzie turns up the dial on gender diversity
Malcolm Maiden The global resources industry is ethnically diverse, but from a gender perspective it's very conservative.
Interest rates and commodity prices will shape markets again in 2016
Malcolm Maiden There are, as usual, many questions to be answered as the markets rally into the new year.
The year market economists failed to see coming
Malcolm Maiden Most of the predictions market economists made a year ago turned out to be wrong.
ACCC chairman Rod Sims chances his arm and racks up a win on petrol
Malcolm Maiden ACCC chairman Rod Sims did win his petrol pricing stoush with the big petrol retailers, but he has struck a deal that is good for consumers.
