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CBA, NAB business bankers want to take more risk as competition mounts
Business bankers believe lenders should diversify how they collateralise business loans, including methods such as equipment or invoice financing.
- Aaron Weinman
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- The AFR View
Four-year terms to end short-termism
New Business Council of Australia president Geoff Culbert pushed the idea at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit to “break out of the jail of short-term thinking” in Australian politics.
- The AFR View
Bringing prices down a ‘joint effort’ with suppliers: Coles CEO
Chief executive Leah Weckert defended the retailer’s profitability, while also saying the Australian market is hugely competitive.
- Carrie LaFrenz
Bankers Dimon and Lowe see upside risks on interest rates
The JPMorgan chief said expectations of interest rate cuts had put the chances of a mild or deeper recession in the US at about 65 per cent.
- John Kehoe, Aaron Weinman, Jemima Whyte, James Thomson and James Eyers
Private capital dominance to increase even if IPOs restart: investors
Initial public offerings will pick up in the next 18 months but many companies will still prefer the “patient” capital provided by super and private equity, investors say.
- Hannah Wootton
Wong backs Biden, urges Israel to ‘change course’
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has warned that Israel will lose support from traditional allies if it presses ahead with a ground attack on Rafah.
- Updated
- Jessica Sier
- Opinion
- Business Summit
Why Canva co-founder says AI isn’t a Kodak moment
It’s adapt or die when it comes to AI but that doesn’t mean tearing up business models, say Cliff Obrecht and Richard White.
- Anthony Macdonald
Dimon says Fed should hold off on rate cuts as global spending mounts
The JPMorgan chief was also gravely concerned that wars in the Middle East and Ukraine could blow out into wider regional conflicts.
- Aaron Weinman
Google in negotiations to strike new media deals
Unlike at Facebook, Google is renegotiating deals to pay local news companies, but pushed back on paying for content used to train AI models.
- Paul Smith
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- Business Summit
HESTA pushes for climate-friendly directors at Woodside
The industry super giant is the first to move on what Paul Keating says will be a trend of funds using market power to seek influence on issues like energy transition.
- Sally Patten and Patrick Durkin
Coalition will seek a social licence for nuclear: Dutton
Communities will be consulted and “incentivised” to adopt nuclear power, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says.
- Phillip Coorey
Australia trapped in a ‘jail of short-term thinking’
New Business Council president Geoff Culbert says three-year government terms contribute to a crisis of short-term thinking that is dragging down the nation.
- Phillip Coorey
Fortescue says hydrogen hopes rest on a halving of power prices
Fortescue Energy boss Mark Hutchinson says Australia must get clean power prices down to $US30 a megawatt hour if it wants green hydrogen projects to go ahead.
- Peter Ker
Chalmers admits growth ambitions are too low
Business leaders welcomed the treasurer’s pitch to embrace what could be a “defining decade” but questioned government policies to fix weak productivity growth.
- Phillip Coorey, John Kehoe and Jonathan Shapiro
AusSuper boss says nation in danger of losing sight of growing the pie
Paul Schroder said generational wealth inequality was a major issue and had been exacerbated by a housing shortage that sent property prices soaring.
- Jonathan Shapiro
Yang Hengjun not that sick, says Chinese ambassador
Hopes for the release of Yang Hengjun on medical grounds have been dampened after the Chinese ambassador said the democracy advocate was not as sick as claimed.
- Jessica Sier
Why inflation and rates are set to ‘rebound higher’
Expect interest rates to fall, but don’t expect them to stay there. That’s the big picture view of macroeconomic thinkers such as Wei Li and Peter Costello.
- Jonathan Shapiro
Why business leaders can’t cope with criticism
Chief executives who insist on hiring “yes people” soon forget how to present an argument in public, speechwriter and author Lucinda Holdforth claims.
- Sally Patten
Meet Wei Li, the maths nerd who became BlackRock’s chief strategist
Wei Li’s rise from Shenzhen maths nerd to the upper echelons of the asset manager by 35 relied on an unusual strategy: making sure she was replaceable.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Government tax take and spending nears record high
Economists are urging Jim Chalmers to focus on paying down debt instead of increasing spending, as new analysis shows the tax take has hit 30 per cent of GDP.
- Michael Read
CBA needs growth to justify $119 price tag, says Fidelity
Fund manager Casey McLean believes Commonwealth Bank deserves to trade at a premium to its rivals and names a biotech stock flying under the radar.
- Joanne Tran
