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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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Pictured is Nicholas Gray, CEO of The Australian, at the Cannes Young Lions Winners Announcement Event at the Museum of Contemporary Art today.

News rings in exec restructure

News Corp Australia yesterday announced a restructure at its executive level, with Damian Eales appointed managing director of metro and regional publishing.

Sharri Markson

Markets

People looks up a clock board which shows the time of 8:59:60, between 8:59:59 and 9:00:00 for a leap second in Tokyo on July 1, 2015. Japan inserted a leap second to adjust the gap between the Earth's rotation and atomic clocks. This will be the first addition of a leap second in three years. AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS JAPAN OUT

Leap second goes like clockwork

The leap second came and went without a hitch and the internet barely registered what some had dubbed the next Y2K bug.

SUPRATIM ADHIKARI

Markets

Jason Beddow of Argo, Photographed at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

Argo leads LICs with bumper raising

Fund manager Argo has raised $286 million in an IPO for its new infrastructure-focused listed investment company.

Prashant Mehra

Opinion

It’s all relative: shares still cheap

Aussie equities are relatively cheap against a broad range of markets — bonds, foreign equities, gold and property.

Adam Carr

Markets

ASX, Australian Stock Exchange electronic stock board.

Bullish spirits stir stockmarket

AUSTRALIAN shares are expected to generate robust returns for investors this year.

David Rogers and Prashant Mehra

Media

Blackout stays as racing talks stall

Punters affected by Sky Racing’s blackout of Victorian racing since Tuesday will be without free-to-air coverage this weekend.

Brendan Cormick

Alan Kohler

Dysfunction takes toll on infrastructure

One side-effect of the Sydney property boom could be a boom in tunnelling. We can only hope.

Alan Kohler

Business Leaders Forum

Reform key to non-mining future

Much of this discussion and debate is focused exclusively on the outlook for non-mining investment.

Adam Boyton

Companies

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BT, AMP line up for Amaysim

BT Investment Management and AMP are expected to be among the cornerstone investors in Amaysim IPO.

Gretchen Friemann and Bridget Carter

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Amaysim selldown

The owners of Amaysim, the low-cost mobile phone operator, are set to sell down a portion of the business to cornerstone investors.

Bridget Carter and gretchen friemann

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