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Tough time for boss in the Ten hat

Elizabeth Knight Warburton has the worst house on a very ugly street and a skinny budget for renovation.

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A bit of clarity in the disclosure grey zone

Elizabeth Knight Obligations to disclose to suspect takeover talks now a little bit more straightforward.

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Hedge funds still hold all the aces

Elizabeth Knight The future of Nine Entertainment has descended into a game of brinkmanship between the various lenders - deadlines are set and reset, proposals are served and counter-proposals are returned - and all...

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Posco cash hostage to the Rinehart dream

Elizabeth Knight The Korean steel giant must be wondering what will happen to its $1.5 billion investment in Rinehart's Roy Hill project.

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Newman has bet each way on QR National

Elizabeth Knight The Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman, is not much of a punter - certainly when it comes to placing odds on whether the state's largest investment in the coalmining industry - QR National - will be...

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Forrest grabs a new cause

Elizabeth Knight It was Tuesday just after 8.15am in the West Australian bush when the mining entrepreneur Andrew Forrest answered his mobile phone.

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Forrest judgment shows ASIC must lift bar

Elizabeth Knight Andrew Forrest would have been a scalp worth placing on the ASIC totem pole.

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Twiggy out of the woods

Elizabeth Knight Andrew Forrest has once again beaten the system, the odds and the corporate cops - the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

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Lahey to take seat on Echo board

Elizabeth Knight Echo Entertainment will be hoping that once Katie Lahey joins as a director concers will ease of the looming James Packer.

O'Neill refuses to fold

Colin Kruger and Elizabeth Knight Chairman John O'Neill is the only remaining authority on Echo's threadbare board, but insiders, who spoke of factional fighting and disarray, say this is part of the problem.

CEO exit in cleanout at casino group

Elizabeth Knight, Colin Kruger The board and management of the company that owns Sydney's The Star casino, Echo Entertainment, has been caught up in a factional war.

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Packer looks a winner as Echo director walks

Elizabeth Knight Despite having played an integral part in the push to install John O'Neill to the chairmanship of Echo Entertainment, fellow director Brett Paton this week resigned his board seat after what those in...

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Little left to pick over on woodchipper's carcass

Elizabeth Knight It's Goodbye, Mr Chips, for Tasmania's biggest public company and one of its largest employers. Step back five years in time and Gunns was a stock that investors were regularly advised to buy because...

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Falling woodchip prices fell Gunns

Elizabeth Knight It's a great day for environmentalists but a very ugly moment for the shareholders and bankers who have funded the controversial forestry business Gunns.

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