How to push up a share price – the dividend bribe

• COMMENT

While shareholders got their fix this time around they should really start to wonder how sustainable this shareholder generosity is beyond the 2016 financial year.

Wings clipped on $1.1 billion Ingham's chicken IPO

• COMMENT

Only days before share trading begins for the $1.1 billion float of Inghams, its lead managers would  be in a tailspin.

Woolies or bullies – the court will decide

Woolworths have a history of very poor form when it comes to treatment of suppliers – both large and small.

Cheap airfares hit Qantas profit

• COMMENT

Record low airfares have knocked some of the gloss off Qantas' profit since June, and its first-half result won't match last year's bumper result.

Wild ride: Fortescue eyes lands of opportunity

• ANALYSIS

After 13 years of battling the Australian mining behemoths BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, Andrew Forrest has in many respects joined their club.

All bets are off: James Packer's exploding China punt

Co-ordinated midnight raids across China have heralded a dramatic week for Crown.

Packer's Crown comes up empty on China answers

Crown Resorts chairman Robert Rankin has warned that any assessment of the impact the arrests of the company's China-based employees would have on the business was premature and speculative.

Questions the Crown board can't answer about the Packer 18

• COMMENT

On Thursday morning the board of Crown Resorts will be in the firing line.

Barangaroo could be the world's tallest white elephant

• COMMENT

What if the bet on Barangaroo plays out badly for James Packer?