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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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Mining & Energy

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Shadow Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Water, Mark Butler visiting the Woodlawn Wind Farm Ð Infigen Energy.

Macquarie unit ups US wind farm stake

NEW York-listed Macquarie Infrastructure Group has lifted its holding in an Idaho wind farm development to 72.4 per cent.

Andrew Main

Sydney International airport where Qantas flights are nearly back to normal. Generic, plane, aircraft, Qantas, departures, holiday.

Qantas shorthaul pilots tie up pay deal

QANTAS’S shorthaul pilots have voted in favour of a pay deal thrashed out this month.

Andrew Main

Wall Street Journal

Sumitomo Mitsui to buy troubled unit

SUMITOMO Mitsui, Japan’s second-largest lender, says it will purchase Citigroup’s Japanese retail operations.

ATSUKO FUKASE

Wall Street Journal

Merchants quick to cash in bitcoins

Merchants quick to cash in bitcoins

REEDS Jewellers encouraged customers to pay with bitcoin this year, but it isn’t hanging on to the virtual currency for long.

ROBIN SIDEL

Wall Street Journal

Japan’s bond yields sink to record low

Japan’s bond yields sink to record low

JAPANESE government bond yields sank to their lowest-ever level on Thursday, defying an upswing in US yields over the last week.

TATSUO ITO

Wall Street Journal

A man walks along the Boulevard Ring in downtown Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014 with a currency exchange office sign in a window. Russia’s central bank made another move Wednesday to shore up the battered ruble, offering hard currency loans to companies and banks to help them service their debts. The bank said that borrowers could put their debt obligations as collateral against the loans. It’s a major relief for the nation‘s companies and banks, who can’t tap foreign capital markets to refinance their loans because of Western sanctions. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Shedding light on emerging risks

EMERGING market investors have faced testing times this year. Russia’s rouble crisis is just the latest shock. But deeper challenges loom.

RICHARD BARLEY

Alex Malley is chief executive of CPA Australia. Picture: Adam Taylor

Governor offers lessons in tax reform

IT’S never easy, but it can be done with real leadership.

Alex Malley

People are reflected in the window as they walk past the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) boards showing the Australian dollar has fallen to a four-and-a-half-year low after the release of very strong US employment growth figures, in Sydney on December 8, 2014. At 0700 AEDT on Monday, the local unit was trading at 82.96 US cents, down from 83.76 cents on Friday. AFP PHOTO/William WEST

Stocks soar 2.5pc in early Santa rally

AUSTRALIA’S sharemarket roared back to life yesterday.

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Dow ‘sacking for revealing fraud’

A FORMER Dow Chemicals employee is to pursue a claim that she was fired for allegedly finding financial irregularities.

Business Spectator

05/10/2005 BUSINESS: Generic image of investor at Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in Sydney.

Flurry of floats sours

A STELLAR year for equity raisings in Australia is being marred by a string of poor listings in recent weeks.

Prashant Mehra

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