Elizabeth Knight
DJs pushes every lever to overcome buyer inertia
Elizabeth Knight Indications are consumers may stay in the doldrums until 2012, though CEO Mark McInnes hopes otherwise.
Billionaires come out for the man on a mission
Elizabeth Knight 'The more you know Aboriginal people the more you love them,' says Australia's richest man.
QR sale devolves into battle over freight rates
Elizabeth Knight Coal companies aren't as black as they are painted, but Anna Bligh refuses even to countenance their proposal.
Difference between minnows and whales in iron ore comes down to rail and ports
Elizabeth Knight You have to love West Australian entrepreneurs. During an investor briefing held by iron ore junior, Atlas, on its takeover of the even smaller hopeful Aurox, the predator's chief executive David...
Telstra gets a break in fight for its future
Elizabeth Knight The balance of power between the Rudd government and Telstra in the struggle to force the telco's structural separation has shifted over the past couple of days, with the very real possibility the...
Lotteries delay proves a shot in the arm for NSW
Elizabeth Knight Tatts wins the bid, but is forced to a higher price and will have to wait until 2014 to reap the rewards.
Big box office among private equity players
Elizabeth Knight The czars of the Australian private equity industry will come out of hiding en masse today for their annual get-together.
CBA has go at its own institutional broking arm
Elizabeth Knight The bank avoided the unfortunate marriages and divorces of the 1980s.
CommBank chases bigger slice of pie
Elizabeth Knight The investment bankers pitching for the initial public offering for the cinema business Hoyts got the call back yesterday - and the winners were Goldman Sachs JBWere, UBS and, out of left field, the...
For Storm victims and CBA, nothing is simple
Elizabeth Knight A tarnished reputation may get a polish, but some mud from the Storm collapse will stick.
Best way out may be getting on together
Elizabeth Knight They say that breaking up is hard to do. I wonder whether this Neil Sedaka classic features on Jerry Maycock's iPod.
Guessing game as Canberra cat stalks Telstra mouse
Elizabeth Knight The government has the telco over a barrel. Shareholders are in the dark as to the future.
Why Foster's is looking much like flat beer
Elizabeth Knight If the less than stellar result from Foster's yesterday was a one-off event, then the negative response from the sharemarket would probably be an overreaction.
Plastic pallet makers a bitter pill for Brambles
Elizabeth Knight The Australian logistics company will need to put more, and better, runs on the board.
Qantas flies into trouble with its guidance
Elizabeth Knight Qantas appears to have fallen victim of its own attempts to manage the market’s expectations.
Qantas investors fly the coop at $50m reversal
Elizabeth Knight Shares tumble at the announcement of Qantas' first-half profit slump. Now fuel costs are tipped to rise.
Stokes bulldozes Seven
Elizabeth Knight Minority shareholders are right to be sceptical about the motives behind Kerry Stoke's bid to combine mining equipment and media.
Money to burn, and Consolidated Media ticks all the boxes
Elizabeth Knight IF KERRY STOKES manages to pull off the marriage of his equipment services group, WesTrac, with his media investment company, Seven Network Ltd, the merged entity will have sufficient cash and cash...
Last call for Foster's revamp
Elizabeth Knight Despite bleeding shiraz at a great rate, Foster's isn't ready to ditch its wine division.
BHP and CBA send positive signals
Elizabeth Knight Interim results from BHP Billiton and the Commonwealth Bank kicked off the reporting season from the big end of town in a positive way from two different perspectives.
