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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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M&A

GE won’t sell more local units: Rice

General Electric has no plans to sell any other Australian businesses, according to its head of global operations.

Alan Kohler

Financial Services

Mortgage calculator. House, money and document. Picture: THINKSTOCK

Pepper prepares for $1bn float

Mortgage lender Pepper Group has hired Goldman Sachs and Macquarie as joint lead managers for a potential float worth $1 billion.

Prashant Mehra and Bridget Carter

DataRoom

Bruce Dixon CEO of Spotless at their office at 549 St. Kilda Rd Melbourne . This is for the Generation Success series to be run out later this month and early March.

PEP to sell $229m Spotless stake

PACIFIC Equity Partners is selling a 9.5 per cent stake in Spotless for $229 million through investment bank UBS, according to sources.

Bridget Carter

Wall Street Journal

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 8, 2011 file photo, a pedestrian walks past the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Financial stocks are leading an early gain in U.S. trading Thursday, March 12, 2015, a day after a number of banks announced dividend increases and stock buybacks. (AP Photo/Jin Lee, File)

Wall St struggles to offload oil loans

CITIGROUP, Goldman Sachs Group, UBS and other large banks face millions in losses on loans they made to energy companies last year.

MATT WIRZ and GILLIAN TAN

Companies

FEBRUARY 26, 2004: CFO Tom Honan (L) & CEO Chris Morris during Computershare half-year results announcement at company's Bourke Street office in Melbourne, 26/02/04. Pic Michael Potter.

Computershare eyes ASIC registry

COMPUTERSHARE wants to pursue an acquisition of the ASIC registry should it be placed on the market by the government.

Bridget Carter

Opinion

THE GLEN shopping centre. Federation Centres, the owners of the Glen has just announced a propoed $500 million redevelopment. Picture: Lawrence Pinder

Shareholders have say in takeovers

INVESTORS in Federation Centres have recently discovered one of the more bizarre anomalies in the Australian takeovers regime.

Edward John

Markets

ASX, Australian Stock Exchange electronic stock board.

Market cautious ahead of Fed meeting

THE Australian sharemarket is set for a cautious start ahead of the US Federal Reserve meeting on interest rates.

dataroomDataRoom

Citi offloads infrastructure stake

CITIGROUP has offloaded the management of its $3.4 billion Citi Infrastructure Fund.

Bridget Carter and Gretchen Friemann

Opinion

Bitcoin: a disaster waiting to happen?

AROUND the world, national governments are struggling to understand and respond to the risks that a global digital currency poses.

Rob Ward

Business

Generic stock pictures of new car yards at Mt Gravatt , Brisbane Thursday 12 , 2011. (AAP Image/ Patrick Hamilton) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

LatAm Autos revs up regional platform

AUTOMOTIVE classifieds business LatAm Autos will today launch its first regional automotive content platform.

Damon Kitney

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