Malcolm Maiden
Malcolm Maiden analyses and comments on business, the markets and the economy.
Malcolm Maiden
It's the Reserve pause that refreshes
Malcolm Maiden The stakes are high, and there is time for the Reserve to wait.
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Billabong ready to consider takeover offers
Malcolm Maiden A lengthy due diligence process inside sportswear group Billabong concluded on Thursday, and the two consortiums involved are believed to have both firmed up their earlier indicative takeover...
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Business takes cautious approach to debt
Malcolm Maiden Intentions toward revival in business lending aren't yet translating into action.
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Blue sky forecast for Qantas
Malcolm Maiden Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims says the Qantas-Emirates tie-in will generate ''material but not substantial'' public benefits, but that's the view from a consumer...
Malcolm Maiden
Blue sky forecast for Qantas tie-up
Malcolm Maiden Rod Sims says the Qantas-Emirates tie-in will generate 'material but not substantial' public benefits.
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Qantas will fly high under Emirates deal
Malcolm Maiden The competition watchdog has given the final go-ahead to Qantas's global alliance with Emirates, and ACCC chairman Rod Sims has imposed only one condition - the airlines must maintain the services...
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Leighton resignations beg a please explain
Malcolm Maiden Leighton's curious status as a majority-owned but independent super-satellite of Germany's Hochtief group and its majority owner, ACS of Spain, is up in the air after the resignation of Leighton...
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Corporate succession in sharp relief
Malcolm Maiden Some of the most powerful business leaders in the world have been shown the door recently.
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Just Group shows retail not dead yet
Malcolm Maiden The Just retail stable that Solomon Lew's Premier Investments owns demonstrated on Thursday that retailing can still generate strong returns.
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Iron ore glut will send prices south
Malcolm Maiden If the iron ore price collapses, it won't just hurt the major miners, the entire economy will suffer.
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Better hope Cypriot mess not a trend
Malcolm Maiden The levy on bank deposits that Cyprus has announced sets two precedents, and only one of them is uniformly bad.
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Europe's debt shaded by cost of managing it
Malcolm Maiden A few thousand anti-austerity protesters milled around outside in freezing conditions in Brussels early on Friday our time as the president of Europe's peak body emerged from yet another sovereign...
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Captain Brookes keeps ship afloat
Malcolm Maiden Myer chief executive Bernie Brookes didn't know it at the time, but the profit downgrade he issued in May was a turning point for the group.
Malcolm Maiden
Captain Brookes keeps ship afloat
Malcolm Maiden Myer chief executive Bernie Brookes didn't know it at the time, but the profit downgrade he issued in May last year was a turning point for the group and its shareholders.
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Clyne's brave new digital world
Malcolm Maiden NAB chief executive Cameron Clyne told analysts at his strategy update on Wednesday morning that there had been so much speculation about it, one might have thought NAB was announcing the new pope.
Malcolm Maiden
Clyne's brave new digital world
Malcolm Maiden NAB chief Cameron Clyne told analysts at his strategy update that there had been so much speculation, one might have thought NAB was announcing the new pope.
Business
Conroy facing a couple of doozies
Malcolm Maiden Stephen Conroy attempted to fly under the radar on Tuesday with two announcements.
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Assets 'tax' could hit banks hard
Malcolm Maiden Greens MP Adam Bandt's proposal that the big four Australian banks be required to pay an annual levy of 20 basis points, or 0.
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Debt an answer, but Moody's hovers
Malcolm Maiden The economy that Victoria's new Premier, Denis Napthine, will be running isn't an east-coast basket case.
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We can't match America's muscle
Malcolm Maiden Why has the US sharemarket reclaimed its pre-financial crisis high when the Australian sharemarket is still 25 per cent short of it? Because in important ways, the Americans are better than us.
