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Terry McCrannBusiness commentator

Terry McCrann is a journalist of distinction, a multi-award winning commentator on business and the economy. For decades Terry has led coverage of finance news and the impact of economics on the nation, writing for the Herald Sun and News Corp publications and websites around Australia.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 17: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee July 17, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on

Can Powell do the Trump tango?

THE old Yellen-Trump two-step is keeping the US, and so the world economy, going strong. The big question is whether the new Trump-Powell tango will bring it all to a shuddering halt, writes Terry McCrann.

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2/11/16 Chairman Nick Falloon during Fairfax media's AGM at the Crown Promenade in Melbourne. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Falloon has finally discovered his ‘Alan Bond’

FROM the day he became chairman of Fairfax in 2015, Nick Falloon has been looking for “his Alan Bond” — someone else in media to merge Fairfax with. Or, more realistically, to take it over, writes Terry McCrann.

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Nine-Fairfax merger decades too late

BEFORE Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Netflix, Nine sat at the top of the lucrative free-to-air TV pile and Fairfax were still running strong. Their merger comes at the very least 10 years and arguably more like 20 years too late, writes Terry McCrann.

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Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Philip Lowe speaks the Ai Group at Leonda by the Yarra, Hawthorn, Melbourne. Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe says it is reasonable to expect a pick-up in wages growth because the laws of supply and demand still work. (AAP Image/Daniel Pockett) NO ARCHIVING

Low inflation is good news

THERE are three big reasons why low inflation figures are great news for Australians. Enjoy it while it lasts, writes Terry McCrann.

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21/08/2017: Mark Vassella, (left) and Paul O'Malley; CEO of BlueScope Steel , announcing BlueScopes profit results in Sydney.Pic by James Croucher

The free lunch you will pay for

BLUESCOPE’S former CEO Paul O’Malleys wanted coal-fired power but now his successor has signed up for sunshine energy, writes Terry McCrann.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 13, 2018, people walk by the headquarters of 21st Century Fox in New York. Cable and media giant Comcast said on July 19, 2018, it is pulling out of the bidding war with Walt Disney Co. for film and television operations of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox. Comcast said in a statement it would instead focus on acquiring the European pay TV operator Sky, shifting its stand on how it approaches the latest round of consolidation in the media-entertainment sector. / AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / SPENCER PLATT

How Disney was outfoxed

THE near $100 billion sale to Disney must rank as the best and most extraordinary in Rupert Murdoch’s endlessly extraordinary 65-year journey, writes Terry McCrann.

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(FILES) This undated handout file photo released by BHP Billiton on February 9, 2012 shows iron ore being stockpiled for export at Port Hedland in Western Australia. Higher commodity prices helped global mining giant BHP report a first-half net profit of 2.02 billion USD on February 20, 2018, but the result was weighed down by a hefty charge from US tax reforms. / AFP PHOTO / BHP BILLITON / Handout / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

BHP’s good news on China — and the US

BHP has joined its fellow holder of a Pilbara ‘licence to print money’, Rio Tinto, in showing that the good news ‘China story ’ was alive and well; but, importantly, ‘different’, writes Terry McCrann.

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Skyline / cityscape view of Melbourne, Australia

Home loan rates going up — and down

ONE headline declares that banks — inevitably, all banks— are, or will be, raising their home loan interest rates; another announces big cuts to exactly those same rates. What’s going on, asks Terry McCrann.

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FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, file photo, Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, left, shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping before a group photo session for the G20 Summit held at the Hangzhou International Expo Center in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province. Turnbull has said there is

Don’t worry, China is not about to hit the wall

IS Australia’s overwhelmingly most important trade partner about to hit the wall? The short answer is ‘no’, writes Terry McCrann.

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US President Donald Trump announces his nominee for Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell (L), in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, November 2, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB

Fate of property market has a Trump card

IS a surging share market going to save investors from plunging property prices? The bad news is it is completely outside our control and the semi-good news is that any fall will be small, writes Terry McCrann.

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