Business
Companies
US giant ExxonMobil gives up control of critical Australian gas supplies
ExxonMobil will hand control of eastern Australia’s main source of domestic gas to Woodside, which wants to tap more supplies from rapidly depleting fields.
- by Nick Toscano
Latest
Opinion
Rupert Murdoch
Bring it on: Is this Murdoch’s late-stage attempt to protect his legacy?
The media mogul who appeared with Donald Trump in the Oval Office has turned into a presidential attack dog.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Opinion
Mergers & acquisitions
Trump will be furious as China gatecrashes $35 billion party
Trump had hailed a deal involving a Hong Kong billionaire as a personal triumph and a win for America. China has just muscled its way into it.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
The unsolved mystery over missing $25 billion Hermes windfall
The Hermès clan, which counts more than 100 members, is one of Europe’s richest families.
- by Tara Patel, Hugo Miller and Angelina Rascouet
Exclusive
Sports betting
MONA founder’s secretive betting business in court over ‘rip off’ by employees
David Walsh and his friend Zeljko Ranogajec use maths to inform bets worth billions. An anonymous email said an analyst was on the take.
- by Patrick Begley
Exclusive
Casinos
Humble suburban bowls club thwarts casino giant
A multibillion-dollar American casino company’s attempts to introduce its brand to Australia may have come unstuck, thanks to a small suburban bowls club.
- by Cameron Atfield
Power giant warns of ‘two-speed’ green shift which benefits only the rich
The household clean energy boom may create winners and losers, warns power distribution company Ausgrid.
- by Nick Toscano
Fast-food fixer: 83-year-old Hungry Jack wants a five-minute plan for Domino’s Pizza
After a string of executives headed for the exit, fast-food king Jack Cowin calls the shots about how to fix the pizza chain – and how quickly it must happen.
- by Jessica Yun
Coldplay kiss-cam company hires Gwyneth Paltrow as ‘spokesperson’
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin’s ex-wife delivered the company’s first lighthearted response to the scandal in a new video posted on X.
Analysis
Epstein fallout
Trump stumbled on Epstein, and Rupert Murdoch has pounced
Rupert Murdoch’s marriage of convenience with Donald Trump might finally be unravelling, and there can only be one winner in their long-running battle for the Republican heartland.
- by Colin Kruger
Google’s cricket-loving CEO has just become a billionaire
When Sundar Pichai won a scholarship to Stanford University in 1993, his family spent more than his father’s annual salary to buy a plane ticket to California. It has paid off.
- by Dylan Sloan
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