Elizabeth Knight

Elizabeth Knight comments on companies, markets and the economy.

'Cosmetics is a growing battleground between online only and traditional retailing.'

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Stoush puts spotlight on the grey market

Elizabeth Knight Cosmetics is a major battleground between online only and traditional retailing.

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Flash or fixture? Iron ore miners pin hopes on price recovery

Elizabeth Knight The 6.7% jump in China's iron ore import prices will be welcomed by mining shareholders but may not signal a lasting turnaround.

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Kloppers caught in crosshairs

Elizabeth Knight Whether it is fair or not the reality is that the managers of Australia's major miners need to justify their jobs.

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Emirates deal a positive for Qantas

Elizabeth Knight The guessing game about the tie-up between Qantas and Emirates could be over today.

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When the bull goes bear, the boom is done

Elizabeth Knight When Fortescue Metals starts to pull in its investment horns it is a sure sign that the boom has derailed.

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Wesfarmers still has room to improve

Elizabeth Knight The glass-half-full take on Wesfarmers is that its return on capital is still below long-stated aims.

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For Goyder, cheap is cheerful

Elizabeth Knight Wesfarmers boss Richard Goyder reckons poor consumer sentiment is completely understandable and rational. It can also be profitable.

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Echo's numbers just a sideshow as suitors wait

Elizabeth Knight Echo Entertainment put out underwhelming earnings but investors just shrug it off.

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Echo Entertainment in a sweet spot

Elizabeth Knight Echo Entertainment, the owner of Star casino in Sydney and Jupiters on the Gold Coast, is in something of a sweet spot - it can put out underwhelming earnings but investors just shrug it off.

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Revenues downwardly mobile

Elizabeth Knight Optus is the first of the Australian operators to make the call that revenue from the mobile telephony industry has peaked and is moving into decline.

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JB Hi-Fi's lack of bad news a positive

Elizabeth Knight The market is so negative about the performance that just producing profit fall in line with guidance pushed shares up.

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Not upwardly mobile, Telstra holds the line

Elizabeth Knight There are not too many analysts with a buy recommendation on Telstra.

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Innovate, globalise: how CSL avoids earnings rut

Elizabeth Knight Departing chief executive of CSL Brian McNamee offers advice to Australian companies.

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Crown keeps its finger on the Barangaroo card

Elizabeth Knight Packer has two years to find some way to persuade Echo to share its licence.

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ASIC catch bit bigger than usual

Elizabeth Knight The Australian Securities and Investments Commission's insider trading conviction victory yesterday couldn't be described as a major haul, but it is a bigger fish than the usual that are barely...

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Three-hander on Echo's cards

Elizabeth Knight It is believed a plan to carve the ownership of Echo Entertainment three ways has been considered by James Packer's Crown and Malaysian billionaire K. T. Lim with the knowledge of the Echo board.

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DJ hoax man resurfaces in New Zealand

Elizabeth Knight The man behind the controversial private equity offer for David Jones, Scotsman John Edgar, has resurfaced in New Zealand.

David Jones raider was all talk, no action

Elizabeth Knight IT IS believed that the man who perpetrated the hoax bid for upmarket department store group David Jones did not profit or even trade in the retailer's shares.

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David Jones raider was all talk, no action

Elizabeth Knight IT IS believed that the man who perpetrated the hoax bid for upmarket department store group David Jones did not profit or even trade in the retailer's shares.