Elizabeth Knight comments on companies, markets and the economy.
The fact that investors and retail experts are overjoyed about Myer reporting a 1.6 per cent improvement in sales in the first quarter of the 2017 financial year says a lot about the state of department stores in Australia.
Woolworths'Â biggest problem child, Big W, just got a lot more difficult after the architect of its turnaround strategy, Sally Macdonald, quit after just ten months in the job.
Shareholders in $11.5 billion commercial property company, Goodman Group, must this week be wondering just how good its chief executive Greg Goodman is.
As we sit in the foggy aftermath of one of history's most extraordinary elections one thing is clear enough – Australia just received an enormous shot of financial adrenalin.
Wednesday's marked the day of the shareholder revenge - shareholders democracy in action.
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.
Only days before share trading begins for the $1.1 billion float of Inghams, its lead managers would  be in a tailspin.
Woolworths have a history of very poor form when it comes to treatment of suppliers – both large and small.
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.
After 13 years of battling the Australian mining behemoths BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, Andrew Forrest has in many respects joined their club.
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