20 February 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens continues to be a prophet of returning good fortune, exhibiting none of the caution and trepidation that seems to be the uniform mantra coming from corporate Australia's semi-annual profit reporting season.
12 February 2010 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
Whatever vestige of his honeymoon as Telstra chief executive David Thodey had left after Communications Minister Stephen Conroy mugged the big telco last year was eradicated yesterday after Telstra missed its revenue targets....
11 February 2010 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
Winners are entitled to be grinners, but those who make a habit out of it learn how to underplay their hand. ...
10 February 2010 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
Understated Alumina chief executive John Bevan was exuding good news yesterday - or so he thought....
09 February 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
The curse of the superhero chief executive struck again yesterday when not even a record half-year net profit of $76 million could stop JB Hi-Fi's market value plunging 5.1 per cent on the news that charismatic CEO Richard Uechtritz was preparing to ...
09 February 2010 | PETER RUEHL | The Australian Financial Review
This sort of crept up on us, but the America's Cup is being contested in Valencia, Spain this week. That's after nearly three years of bickering between the Swiss Alinghi syndicate, which holds the cup, and BMW Oracle, the Americans who have been at ...
06 February 2010 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
'If the sugar refining company won't save me, who's gonna save me?'...
05 February 2010 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
The heat under the various coal-seam gas-fired liquefied natural gas plant proposals simmering in the co-ordinator-general's office in Queensland's Department of Infrastructure and Planning has been turned up a little recently, with Origin Energy ini...
04 February 2010 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
CSR's carefully sculpted strategy to split into value-creating discrete sugar and building products entities so that chief executive Jerry Maycock can gracefully exit is in tatters, shredded by the unquantifiable nature of asbestos liabilities and an...
04 February 2010 | PETER RUEHL | The Australian Financial Review
Pity the Indianapolis Colts football team. They have to play the New Orleans Saints in next Monday's Super Bowl and due to the overwhelming emotion surrounding New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, finding anybody in the country outside India...
03 February 2010 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
Governor Glenn Stevens and the other directors of the Reserve Bank of Australia looked into the eyes of the economic recovery yesterday - and blinked....
02 February 2010 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
Right about now, one could be excused for thinking CSR chairman Ian Blackburne and his fellow directors might be starting to get a case of the heebie jeebies. ...
02 February 2010 | Peter Ruehl | The Australian Financial Review
Parliament resumes today, which means government gets back to the business of being boring. Ever notice the only two times government isn't being boring are when it takes a nice long vacation, such as what just happened here, or when it's getting rea...
