Eric Johnston

Eric Johnston is an associate editor of The Australian. He has more than 25 years experience as a finance journalist, including a former business editor of The Australian. He has been business editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and financial services editor with The Australian Financial Review. His work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

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The long, hard slog of changing workplace culture at Rio

Overhauling a culture of sexual harassment and bullying is not a linear exercise and the Rio Tinto boss is finding out the tough way, as its two-year progress report is released to staff.

Eric Johnston

CommentaryEconomics

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell on November 13, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

How Trump’s tariffs will change the path of interest rates

Much of the global tariff fight is set to take place between China and the US, but it has major implications for Australia.

Eric Johnston

AnalysisEconomics

Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), listens during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats told associates in March that U.S. President Donald Trump had asked him to intervene with then-Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey to get the FBI to back off its focus on former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Russia probe, the Washington Post reported yesterday. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

The uncertainty Trump creates ‘is his tactical advantage’

There are two fundamental traits to understand how Trump approaches dealmaking says former National Security Agency head Mike Rogers, who is now in high demand advising business.

Eric Johnston

CommentaryCompanies

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 03: People are seen walking past a Commonwealth Bank of Australia branch on May 03, 2022 in Melbourne, Australia. The Reserve Bank of Australia has today lifted the official interest rate to 0.35 per cent following a meeting today. The rise is the first interest rate increase since November 2010. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

The ‘big switch’ driving CBA’s mega milestone

There are big forces helping Commonwealth Bank to defy gravity and quietly move up the pecking order to be the 11th biggest bank in the world.

Eric Johnston

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Reckoning time: If claims are proven, Swan needs to resign

Industry funds got a relatively free pass during the financial services royal commission. But claims of painfully slow payments and the run-around given to grieving families by Cbus is right up there in the class of banks behaving badly.

Eric Johnston

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Global CEO and President of US metals giant Alcoa Corp, Bill Oplinger. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

‘We believe in free and fair trade’: Alcoa CEO

The boss of one of the world’s biggest aluminium producers has energy on his mind as he heads into a new year under a new president.

Eric Johnston

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Friday 8th November 2024. ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott and CFO Farhan Faruqui present Full Year Results 2024.Photograph by Arsineh Houspian.

Crunch time has arrived for ANZ’s Shayne Elliott

There’s a full slate of career-defining issues coming directly at the ANZ boss. For a CEO heading into his ninth year, it should be much smoother.

Eric Johnston

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Why this bank’s most at risk from Trump’s rise

New NAB chief executive Andrew Irvine has seen the past benefits of a Trump bump, but this time the settings are much different.

Eric Johnston

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell on November 6, 2024, in New York City. Wall Street stocks surged in opening trading on Wall Street Wednesday after US voters sent Donald Trump back to the White House and delivered him a Republican Senate. Major indices were up 1.8 percent or more in the early going as hopes about expected tax cuts and regulatory easing more than offset worries about higher tariffs. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

The charts that told the Trump win in real time

The US dollar surged, stocks hit a record but Donald Trump’s decisive win wasn’t good news for all markets. These are the charts that told the story.

David Rogers and Eric Johnston

CommentaryEconomics

WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 06: (L-R) Republican vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner arrive as Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on November 06, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Americans cast their ballots today in the presidential race between Republican nominee former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as multiple state elections that will determine the balance of power in Congress. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Trump’s second term is about defining his legacy

The revival of Donald Trump’s power sends a clear message about the rise of a pro-business US projecting strength around the world.

Eric Johnston

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