On the big days of this month’s earnings season, The Australian Financial Review’s Chanticleer columnists James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald have extracted the gold from the key profit results.

JT: CSL might be about 175 times bigger than online furniture retailer Temple & Webster in terms of market capitalisation, but there may have been more interest in the latter in Tuesday’s results. After all, Temple & Webster’s share price has more than doubled since April and investors were desperate to know if its profits and guidance could keep the party going.