• COMMENT

Conventional theory on the strategy of mergers and acquisitions says that timing plays a large part in success or failure.

• COMMENT

Well that's one way to deal with the problem of bracket creep – don't have a wages increase.

• ANALYSIS

The president-elect plans to continue to own his global business while in office. This is a colossal mistake.

If I were an Australian politician I'd think hard about the ascension of Trump before I drew conclusions for local consumption.

• ANALYSIS

Bond yields are climbing because of a feeling things are about to get better.

• COMMENT

How has poor little Oz managed to keep our economy growing continuously for 25 years while, in the same period, other economies have suffered a recession or even two? We've had good insurance policies.

• COMMENT

In December 2015 James Evans hatched a plan with the National Union of Workers to go under cover to expose wage fraud at a third party fund raiser for some of the country's most well known charities.

• COMMENT

Quite simply, the business case has not added up for the Arrium steelworks, even with bits and pieces of protectionism

• COMMENT

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.

• COMMENT

Treasurer Scott Morrison and the Business Council of Australia have wasted no time in grabbing Donald Trump's election as a justification for cutting Australian corporate tax rates.

• COMMENT

Would you trust Donald Trump with $US20 trillion ($26.6 trillion) of debt? How about lending him another $US7 trillion or so on top of that? You wouldn't be alone in thinking twice about the prospect.

• COMMENT

Woolworths' 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.

• COMMENT

For every corporate gender diversity policy, for every well-intentioned plan aimed at stamping out sexual harassment and bullying, there is a man on whom the message is lost.

• COMMENT

Australia must be prepared to undergo hard structural reforms.

• COMMENT

Shareholders in $11.5 billion commercial property company, Goodman Group, must this week be wondering just how good its chief executive Greg Goodman is.

• COMMENT

The president-elect's inflationary pledges have difficult implications for emerging markets.

• COMMENT

Sorry, but I find the ascent of Donald Trump more fascinating than frightening. If it's all going to be so terrible, how exactly is he going to make it happen?

• COMMENT

The caveat has go up front: given his propensity for lying, exaggerating and generally raving, nobody can know what Donald Trump will actually do as president. He probably doesn't know himself. 

• COMMENT

Donald Trump's big win might seem a big loss for China. However, his policies will ultimately work to China's advantage.

• COMMENT

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.

• COMMENT

Keep your shirt on. The world as we know it may be ending, but if so it won't be for a while. And maybe things won't change as much as feared.

• COMMENT

Australia has become rich on the basis of natural resources but we can't rely on it in the future.

• COMMENT

Donald Trump is a demagogue but not ultimately a fool. The calculated trade is to bet on optimism.

• COMMENT

Wednesday's marked the day of the shareholder revenge - shareholders democracy in action.

• COMMENT

The rise in anti-establishment sentiment is not a US phenomenon, political culture is the product of our time.

• COMMENT

The GFC was quite scary at times. President Trump worries me much more.

• COMMENT

You know the hordes complaining about credit card interest rates of 22 or 23 per cent? They don't know what high interest rates are.

• 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.

They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes, but the concept of certainty is at the core of the issue confronting beleaguered dairy processor Murray Goulburn.

Dickens could teach Turnbull much about fiscal repair.