CBD was shocked to hear that former Leighton boss Wal King still has a coveted ASX chairman's crown, and will get to test his appeal with investors in Brisbane this Thursday when Terracom shareholders get to elect him to the board for the first time.

Anyone choking on their cornflakes over the obscene pay at our big four banks might gain a bit of perspective by looking at the financial Everest that Nic Moore's Macquarie Group has just scaled.

Jordan Belfort the alleged Wolf of Wall Street has not passed on any of the painful lessons he learned about doing business in Australia following his misadventures in 2014.

Gina Rinehart wasn't going to let the Barnaby Joyce fallout from her National Agricultural Day rain out the party for her National Mining and Related Industries Day.

It won't surprise anyone that real estate super agent, John McGrath, wants to pull his biggest listing, McGrath Ltd, from the market.

And here we were thinking the corporate ref had finally blown the whistle on Kupang Resources, the Indonesian explorer previously run by our favourite cross-code lovers - rugby league legend Benny Elias and Perth Glory owner Tony Sage.

If the banks looked away from their building pile of reputational rubble for a minute they'd have noted no doubt financial planning outfit Netwealth's spectacular debut on the ASX.

More than five years have passed since the former pharmacy czar and horse racing identity, Rohan Aujard, filed for bankruptcy. But his financial penury is not about to end any time soon.

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When you've got something unpleasant to do, sometimes it is best to just get it over and done with.

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Rupert Murdoch has survived the latest battle to end his control of 21st Century Fox despite a massive revolt by investors at the media group's annual meeting.

Move over Paul Hogan, shrimps are for wimps.

Move over Paul Hogan, shrimps are for wimps. Australia's biggest ASX-listed cattle group, Australian Agricultural Co (AACo), has recruited Jessica Rudd - daughter of our former PM Kevin Rudd - to help sell its branded beef strategy to China.

In this kind of market, it makes sense to have a Plan B. But the market has taken a dim view of Vita Group founder Maxine Horne injecting a little botox into her Telstra retail shop operator.

Since daigou is the new dotcom – to the point that our first ASX-listed diagou, AuMake, almost tripled on debt last month – CBD thought it was worth checking out this new Chinese phenomenon.

You could not accuse our former top corporate cop, Greg Medcraft, of skiving off during his final days in charge of ASIC.

Interests associated with corporate spiv, Nick Bolton, and Perth-based cowboy Farooq Khan, are no longer the only ones making a grab for the $65 million cash box that is Molopo Energy. A white knight has emerged in the form of respected fundie, Geoff Wilson.

Dreamworld's owner faces a new nightmare with CEO Simon Kelly walking the plank with immediate effect less than five months after he started.

And all those mug punters tearing up their tickets in tears after the big race should spare a thought for the ultimate Cup tragic, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. His racing operation, Godolphin reported a loss of more than $91 million last year.

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The House of Murdoch would have felt the tremors as Rupert's key supporter, billionaire investor Prince al-Waleed bin Talal was arrested over the weekend.

The only person in Australia welcoming the notoriety of Lottland's ad blitz this week would have to be online bookie Tom Waterhouse who must be thanking his lucky stars he is no longer the industry pariah.

Gina Rinehart's private company doubled its net profit to more than $1.07 billion and unleashed a cash bonanza for its owners with a $767 million dividend.

Seven West chairman Kerry Stokes consigned the Amber Harrison affair to footnote at the broadcaster's annual shareholder meeting on Thursday. "Your company acted professionally and appropriately in the handling of a matter involving a former employee," Stokes told investors.

News of Domino's pay bill rising by tens of millions a year came a bit late to the ASX, but it was certainly sizzling hot for chairman Jack Cowin whose stake lost $70m.

Millions of pages of glossy print is being churned out from Bauer Media, but its year will be defined by five black and white pages that have been delivered to Victoria's Court of Appeal. The fives pages represent Bauer's application for leave to appeal the record $4.56 million defamation payout against Aussie actor, Rebel Melanie Elizabeth Wilson.

CBD thought it was worth checking up on the accounts of another company John Kinghorn has his fingers in over the past decade, Krispy Kreme Australia. The good news is that Kinghorn is still making good money from junk food with the doughnut business reporting a net profit after tax of $8.27 million on sales of $88.2 million.

We hear that one of Seven's digital channels scored a higher audience on Saturday night than Ten's main channel. So you can understand why Ten boss, Paul Anderson, is juggling like crazy while the NSW Supreme Court decides the future of the rescue deal from US media giant, CBS.

It is not a great time for former Rio boss Tom Albanese to be headlining the Sydney Mining Club's gala dinner November 22.

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James Packer fended off a massive vote against Crown Resorts remuneration report. It is a feat he will not be able to repeat next year.

A maverick shareholder, dressed in priests' robes and wooden cross, asked the assembled Fletcher investors to vote for absolution or exorcism for the board's corporate soul after the latest embarrassing downgrade.