Bait and switch: How companies fake customer online reviews
Ever stayed in a hotel, used a furniture removalist or bought a kitchen appliance after reading positive online reviews and felt like a victim of bait and switch?
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Elizabeth Knight
Elizabeth Knight comments on companies, markets and the economy.
Rio Tinto launches $5 billion cost cutting drive
Rio Tinto says it will generate $5 billion in extra free cash flow over the next five years by cutting operational costs across its global empire.
Why James Packer's casino wounds have been re-opened
Since the raids were conducted, there has been numerous theories around why Crown in particular was targeted.
Trump supplies gravy to flavour Boral's $3.5 billion buy
Conventional theory on the strategy of mergers and acquisitions says that timing plays a large part in success or failure.
Myer stages a revival that proves critics wrong
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 hit by new crisis as Big W boss quits
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.
For $22 million, Goodman boss must be better than good
Shareholders in $11.5 billion commercial property company, Goodman Group, must this week be wondering just how good its chief executive Greg Goodman is.
America's gift to the Australian economy: Donald Trump
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.
Democracy in action: CommBank falls foul to shareholders
Wednesday's marked the day of the shareholder revenge - shareholders democracy in action.
How to push up a share price – the dividend bribe
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.
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