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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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Robin Bromby

Lithium helps light investor fuse

TIN and European exploration rarely excite investors, but add the favoured element of lithium and suddenly everyone is all ears.

Robin Bromby

Commercial Property

Mirvac outlook cautious: analysts

ANALYSTS are retaining a cautious stance on property group Mirvac, which posted robust first-half results last week.

Prashant Mehra

Mining & Energy

Anglo American in $3bn loss

ANGLO American has reported another yearly net loss after a multi-billion-dollar writedown of the value of its iron ore operation in Brazil.

Commercial Property

ALCORCON, SPAIN - FEBRUARY 12: Cranes operate at a construction site on February 12, 2015 in Alcorcon, near Madrid, Spain. Spain's residential property sales rose during 2014 for the first time in four years. Eurostat figures show Spain is the country where the production in the construction industry is increasing the most. Figures show a 15.9% year-on-year rise in November, the largest in any EU country. In the EU the industry registered a 2.5% year-on-year increase. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Fund targets $2bn UK project

TOP industry superannuation fund AustralianSuper has snared a one-fifth stake in London’s largest mixed-use development.

Ben Wilmot

Financial Services

Bendigo Bank brochures are arranged for a photograph in Melbourne, Australia, on Monday, Feb. 15, 2010. Bendigo & Adelaide Bank Ltd., an Australian regional lender, said first-half profit more than doubled as lending income grew and charges for bad debts slumped. Photographer: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg

Bendigo has new mergers appetite

BENDIGO and Adelaide’s elevation of Gary Tucker to head of strategy signals a return of the bank’s appetite for M&A opportunities.

Eric Johnston

Opinion

Fairfield Mayor Frank Carbone with General Manager of Retail and Business Banking Gai McGrath officially open the new Bank Now branch at Cabramatta. Picture: Supplied

Banking needs to keep tech advantage

THE banking industry is going through a significant period of structural change.

Gai McGrath

David Uren

RBA keeps faith in China

GLENN Stevens has given a vote of confidence in China’s high-growth economy, but there are signs not all is well with it.

David Uren

EXCLUSIVENational Affairs

PM Tony Abbott officially opens the renovated historic Kurrajong Hotel in Canberra which was a favourite of Prime Minister Ben Chifley.

Leadership turmoil saps confidence

SOME of the nation’s biggest companies have hit out at the political uncertainty at both federal and state level.

John Durie and Kylar Loussikian

Mining & Energy

Orbis Gold drilling at Bantou in Burkina Faso where a recent core sample produced 11 metres grading 11.73 grams of gold per tonne

Orbis agrees to takeover

CANADIAN miner SEMAFO will take over explorer Orbis Gold after the Australian company’s board agreed to a revised offer.

Prashant Mehra

Data RoomDataRoom

Road tankers used for transporting chlorine wait to be filled at Orica Ltd.'s chlor-alkali plant In Laverton North, a suburb on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday, June 29, 2010. The plant manufactures chlorine, which is used extensively in a wide range of applications, including drinking water purification. Photographer: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg

Investa stand-off enters end game

IT’S crunch time for Investa Property Group. The threat of a sale has hung, like a sword of Damocles, over the $9bn real estate empire for years.

Bridget Carter and Gretchen Friemann

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