Why Bullock had a hike option
Did Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock really, seriously, contemplate leading her board to deliver a rate hike, at the RBA’s first meeting back for the year, two weeks ago?
Did Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock really, seriously, contemplate leading her board to deliver a rate hike, at the RBA’s first meeting back for the year, two weeks ago?
The Australian Competition Tribunal’s approval of ANZ’s takeover of Suncorp proves the ACCC hasn’t a clue about the legislation it is charged with enforcing.
Billionaire Kerry Stokes and his son Ryan have delivered a masterclass in ‘patience and persistence’ in their mop-up bid for the remaining stake in construction materials company Boral.
BHP’s ‘future-facing’ ambitions have now been shredded, and dumped into the dustbin of history, thanks to brutal contemporary reality.
Here’s the truth about Qantas and its former CEO Alan Joyce which should bury the unrestrained hysteria of the past week.
All the attacks on Alan Joyce are silly and ‘miss the mark’ by billions of dollars when he should really be getting applause for building and saving Qantas.
You’d be brave to suggest that Chinese billionaires, or even mere multi-millionaires, will be coming back to gamble in Australia’s casinos any time soon.
It’s tough working for the billionaire man. It might get even tougher with a future China.
The new Intergenerational Report will sink like a stone, like all its predecessors and no-one will ever look at it again, just like the Business Council’s ‘grand plan’, released on Monday.
Coming out of Covid, who’s been winning the great and seemingly eternal battle in the supermarket aisles. The latest profit reports from Coles and Woolworths provide an unambiguous answer.
BHP’s profit and its outlook tells us as much about Australia and its prospects as it does about the company – and the outlook for the next year and rest of the decade looks challenging.
The week has kicked off with the greedy big business fantasies of the BCA and will end with the hopeless statistical fantasies of Treasury.
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