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About 90 per cent of those who contact NAB saying they are in financial difficulty are back on track within 90 days.

NAB signals confidence with $1.5b buyback as profits rise

The country’s second-largest bank reported a 5.8 per cent increase in profit and announced a $1.5 billion share buyback but saw the quality of its loans fall.

  • Millie Muroi

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Australia’s east-coast LNG joint ventures have been seeking to assure the market that they will supply enough gas to avert the threat of any shortfall next year.

Santos hands more profits to investors as oil, gas prices surge

Santos, one of Australia’s largest oil and gas producers, has doubled the size of its share buyback program to more than $1 billion amid surging commodity prices.

  • Nick Toscano
Dr Manny Pohl’s ECP Asset Management has sold its longstanding shares in Magellan.

Magellan investor dumps stock amid leadership instability

ECP Asset Management has sold its longstanding shares in Magellan after a new leadership team was abruptly brought in.

  • Charlotte Grieve
The $24 billion takeover of Sydney Airport was Australia’s biggest ever all-cash deal.

Huge cash piles set to keep M&A boom rolling

Australia’s mergers and acquisitions boom is set to roll on as major corporates deal with massive cash piles that have swollen further while they generated strong-than-expected profits in the first half of this year. 

  • Patrick Hatch
Airlie’s Emma Fisher expects to see significant cash returns over the next 12 months.

M&A boom predicted after companies sit on $40 billion cash pile

Ongoing COVID lockdowns are not expected to stop companies opening the purse strings to pursue acquisitions or return cash to investors via buybacks and dividends. 

  • Colin Kruger
Wall Street is booming: With returns diminishing across the fixed-income world, equities are increasingly seen as the only game in town.

The decade of shrinking global stock markets is finally over

With returns diminishing across the fixed-income world, equities are increasingly seen as the only game in town.

  • Justina Lee and Lu Wang

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