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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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Time to do away with ‘circle of hell’

I HATE meetings. Everybody does. Yet Nancy Koehn, who teaches at the Harvard Business School, estimates that 11 million meetings take place daily in the US.

Andy Kessler

Opinion

MEDIA: Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, pictured in Sydney.

Corporate world should look to future

IN a corporate world seemingly obsessed with the short term, there are still champions of the long view.

Martin Sorrell

The Times

Ross McEwan, Head of retail banking at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), pictured at Darling Harbour in Sydney.

RBS chief in line for $2m windfall

THE chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland is set to receive a £1 million ($1.9m) share windfall.

Harry Wilson

Opinion

Australian Catholic University Professor Paul Oslington at North Sydney. Oslington is researching the links between theology and economics.

Beware shiny-suited advisers

COMMISSIONS still have the upper hand over skills.

Paul Oslington

Financial Services

Trader Stuart Brownrigg on the floor at the UBS trading room, the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere, in the Sydney CBD.

Brokers caught in tech race

THE rise of specialist high-frequency traders is displacing traditional mid-tier brokerages in equities market share.

Eric Johnston and Andrew Main

Wall Street Journal

Workers assemble automobiles in a factory in Zouping, east China's Shandong province on December 16, 2014. China's manufacturing activity worsened in December with HSBC's closely watched purchasing managers' index (PMI) hitting a seven-month low, the bank said on December 16, signalling more weakness in the world's second-largest economy. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

Chinese manufacturing weaker

THERE was more evidence of weakness in China’s huge manufacturing sector in December.

RICHARD SILK

Mining & Energy

Iron ore halved in horror year

IRON ore is set to end the year down almost 50 per cent, making it potentially the worst-performing major commodity of 2014.

Rhiannon Hoyle

Business

Chinese workers at work at a textile factory in Huaibei, east Chinese Anhui province, 21/11/2011. China's manufacturing activity slumped to its lowest level in 32 months in 11/2011, according to banking giant HSBC, renewing fears the Asian powerhouse is losing steam amid global economic woes.

China ‘to cut rates twice’ as PMI falls

CHINA could be forced to cut interest rates twice in the new year to offset falling prices and flagging economic activity.

Scott Murdoch

EXCLUSIVEBusiness

Exterior of Noni B store at Shop 75A Leichhardt Market Place, Cnr Marion & Flood Streets.

Brands purchase bolsters Noni B

THE new chief of Noni B says the group’s acquisition of two fashion brands will help in reducing supply chain costs.

Damon Kitney

Mining & Energy

Century Zinc's shipping operations at Karumba.

Zinc poised to defy commodity rout

AFTER a year of carnage in commodity prices, there are signs that zinc prices may go against the grain and improve this year.

Paul Garvey

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