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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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Signs of pick-up in business lending

Business loan applications across Australia rose 7.8 per cent in the March quarter,.

Prashant Mehra

EXCLUSIVEGlobal Food Forum

Food bowl dream a risky fantasy

John Foss says the development of broadacre commodity crops to feed Asian demand is doomed to failure.

Shrinking, not sinking

Shrinking, not sinking

The resources sector is down, but it’s not out.

Robin Bromby

Wall Street Journal

Lloyd Blankfein; Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, visiting the Sydney office.

Goldman execs’ pay tied to performance

Goldman Sachs executives are going to have to wait a little bit longer before they can collect their 2014 pay packages.

PETER RUDEGEAIR

Sino Iron shows what ails ore market

Sino Iron shows what ails ore market

If Atlas Iron with production costs of about $US60 a tonne is in trouble, Sino Iron should be mothballed.

David Uren

With dollar down, Cootes looks to buy

While many importers are being hurt by a falling dollar, John Cootes Furniture thinks it’s the right time to pursue an expansion.

Financial Services

FILE - In this file photo taken Dec. 2, 2008, a General Electric (GE) sign is seen on display at Western Appliance store in Mountain View, Calif. General Electric will sell most of GE Capital as it turns its focus more to its industrial business and away from a big money generator that also made some investors nervous. The company will buy back as much as $50 billion of its own stock, sending shares up 6 percent before the opening bell Friday April 10, 2015 and toward a new high for the year. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

GE to offload commercial lending arm

A slew of private equity players and major banks are expected to circle GE’s Australian commercial lending book.

Businessman hand giving money - Australian dollars

Corporate bond issues hit $30bn

Australia’s debt markets have had one of the strongest starts to the year.

A Toll Holdings truck prepares to offload shipping containers onto a Toll Holdings ship berthed at Webb Dock East in Port Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. Toll Holdings provides express freight transport by road, rail and sea and provides integrated logistics and distribution systems, including specialized warehousing, port operations, vehicle transport and distribution, and rail passenger operations. The Company also provides coastal shipping, refrigerated freight services, bulk liquid transportation and wharf services. Photographer: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg News

Easy debt, asset sales drive M&A

Deal opportunities in Australia’s mergers and acquisitions market are increasing after a strong first quarter.

Prashant Mehra

N08mm179 B1 For Deakin federal election 2010 candidate profiles. Deakin Liberal candidate Phil Barresi

Act now or suffer energy shortage

Those campaign banners are now packed away but, for the re-elected Baird Coalition government, there’s more persuading to be done.

Phil Barresi

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