Court stacks odds against Murdoch in battle for Ten
The key to the future ownership of Network Ten sits in the hands of a bunch of its journalists, admin staff, television personalities, producers and operations technicians.
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Elizabeth Knight
Elizabeth Knight comments on companies, markets and the economy.
AGL has become Australia's most monstered company
The government is looking for scapegoats, monstering energy companies to breach their fiduciary duties.
Is New Myer just the old Myer with lip gloss?
Only two years into the making of New Myer, its architect Richard Umbers is in strategy redesign - or as he would characterise it , refinement - as the business has fallen behind on its ambitious targets.
Has watchdog already made up its mind on CBA?
Listening to Wayne Byres, the chairman of the financial regulator APRA, being grilled in a parliamentary inquiry on Wednesday, it's hard to escape a keen sense that it thinks that there isn't too much fundamentally wrong at the Commonwealth Bank despite having launched an unprecedented prudential inquiry into it.
Banks on notice over $500b in 'liar loans'
Up to $500 billion of mortgages on Australian banks' books are based on factually incorrect loan applications – or liar loans, a UBS report says.
Amazon won't be the only Christmas Grinch
The antidote to the current weakness in retail spending is an end to our sluggish wage growth.
We're not a Liddell bit closer to good energy policy
Exactly who is looking after the national interest when it comes to the environment or energy security? Is it Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull or Andy Vesey - the bloke who runs one of the nation's largest energy suppliers, AGL?
Murdoch's Fox could be biggest loser in Ten deal
Network Ten's biggest loser could well be the family Murdoch-controlled 21st Century Fox.
$5b investor's plan to fix 'cult' of excessive executive pay
Outspoken investor Allan Gray has called time on current executive pay practices and is pressuring the companies in which it invests to adopt an alternative model.
NBN throws a grenade under Telstra's $5 billion plan
Telstra's recently mooted plan to deliver up to $4.5 billion back to shareholders - a plan that is only a couple weeks old - has been torpedoed by the National Broadband Network.
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