Eric Johnston

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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Global Food Forum

PE ‘hangover’ weighed on Inghams

Inghams chief Mick McMahon says negative perceptions of private equity may have weighed on his group’s listing.

Daniel Palmer

Global Food Forum

Mrs Gina Rinehart, Executive Chairman, Hancock Prospecting Group, with S. Kidman & Co staff at her first visit to the company's North Adelaide headquarters.

Tax rules undermine agriculture

Technology can improve agriculture right around the world, but excessive tax and regulations will hamper growth

Gina Rinehart

Global Food Forum

Holgate warns on China obsession

Blackmores chief executive Christine Holgate has warned Australian companies not to become overly obsessed with China.

SUE NEALES

Opinion

19/01/2017: Chief executive officer at the Financial Services Council, Sally Loane, is speaking to The Australian about her year in the job and the challenges ahead for 2017 in superannuation and life insurance. Photographed at their Sydney offices on Thursday. Hollie Adams/The Australian

‘Crap apps’ just one super hitch

The union-controlled superannuation lobby might want to think about how to engage millennials.

Sally Loane

Business

A CRH high-speed train leaves the Beijing South Station for Shanghai during a test run on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway in Beijing, China, 27/06/2011. China's bullet train builders have conducted a test run of their showcase Beijing-to-Shanghai line amid controversy over the system's high cost.

Li’s growth engine: bullet trains

Selling China’s high-speed trains is at the heart of Beijing’s ambitious One Belt, One Road initiative.

Peter Cai

Markets

A man watches as stock prices are displayed on an electronic board at ASX Ltd., in Sydney, Australia, on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. Singapore Exchange Ltd. agreed to buy ASX Ltd., Australia's main stock-exchange operator, for A$8.4 billion ($8.3 billion) in cash and shares in a drive to compete with Hong Kong and Tokyo. Photographer: Ian Waldie/Bloomberg *** Local Caption ***

Ignore the swings and roundabouts

Australian sharemarket investors are facing a test of faith this week.

James Kirby

exclusiveCompanies

JD.COM chief and China's 9th richest man Richard Liu launches JD.com at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne following the recent signing of the Australia-China FTA.

JD seeks talks with retailers

China’s JD.com may strike partnerships with Australia’s top retailers as the next step of its local expansion plans.

Damon Kitney

Wall Street Journal

Apple CEO Tim Cook attends the unveiling of the new iPhone products during a media event at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California on September 7, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / Josh Edelson

Market lift revives CEO payrises

Pay raises are back in style in the corner office, wiping out cuts from a year earlier.

THEO FRANCIS and JOANN S. LUBLIN

Wall Street Journal

(FILES) This file photo taken on January 9, 2017 shows The Cadillac Escala concept car on display at the 2017 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. The expansive exhibit floor of the Detroit auto show is full of the latest offerings from car companies hoping to woo American consumers. But can you tell one from another? Sure, there are luxury vehicles from brands such as BMW, Alpha Romeo, Mercedes and Cadillac, unreachable for most consumers. And then there are the designer cars from brands like start-up VLF, and even Volkswagen with its futuristic reimagining of its beloved minibus, electrified and automated. / AFP PHOTO / Geoff Robins

GM tests Netflix route

Cadillac’s latest experiment tests whether people are willing to treat personal transportation like a Netflix account.

MIKE COLIAS

Opinion

A container ship is berthed at Patrick Terminal at Port Botany Terminal, 10 miles south of Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2007. Australia's trade deficit probably widened in August as the economy's expansion spurred demand for consumer goods, outpacing growth in mining shipments from the world's largest exporter of iron ore and coal. Photographer: Grant Turner/Bloomberg News

Nation has much to gain on trade

Greatly expanded international trade within the Asia-Pacific has fuelled regional and world economic growth.

Tony Makin and Andreas Chai

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