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Viburnum Funds sets sights on Coventry Group breakup
Fluids spoke for about 43 per cent of the group’s total $371.3 million revenue in the 2024 financial year.
- 26 mins ago
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Beach shares plummet as new gas field reserves slashed
The downgrade of the size of the Enterprise gas field in Victoria has shaken the market, with analysts worried about other new projects.
- 49 mins ago
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Nature’s Care sale docs in front of potential buyers; NBIOs due Sept 6
Although the company returned a $23.7 million operating profit in 2023, it has struggled under a heavy debt load and missed a $148 million debt payment last month.
- 1 hr ago
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Competition regulator delays $8.8b Chemist Warehouse deal approval
The ACCC is undertaking more analysis of the transaction, which would merge the pharmacy giant into Sigma Healthcare. A decision won’t be made until October.
- 1 hr ago
- Michael Smith
Aurizon investors get $150m buyback after profit bump
Income from coal haulage helped lift annual profit by 25 per cent, but losses from moving consumer goods dragged down the full-year result.
- Jenny Wiggins
First Sentier talent lands at Ellerston Capital
Street Talk understands Ashok Jacob’s firm has added First Sentier portfolio manager Jack Briggs to its ranks.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Opinion & Analysis
Like a French film, it was genius and difficult, but a fitting end
The closing ceremony was slow, and some people walked out, but the fans stayed until the end and only the Hollywood part was a bit off.
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EVs sales splutter, but not this group’s offshore expansion strategy
CAR Group’s big move in the US came at a time of rising rates and softening consumer demand. It still worked.
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JB Hi-Fi’s results weren’t great. Here’s why its stock still soared
The retailer’s stunning share price surge shouldn’t distract investors from the pressure we’re seeing on profit margins as the economy slows.
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Paris 2024 was the Olympic Games of the new era
The city of light has shown it’s not only possible to adapt to change while remaining true to yourself, it’s a necessity.
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Inghams director warns: Guzman y Gomez store will attract ‘riff-raff’
Behind the minor fracas is a bigger question about whether the country’s biggest poultry producer can continue to squeeze big profits from fast food chains.
- Jemima Whyte
The PwC players, the blowback and why it could all happen again
Many current and former PwC partners still don’t believe the tax leaks scandals involved any serious wrongdoing, and regulators can’t be sure there will not be a repeat.
- Edmund Tadros
- Perspective
- Rugby Championship
Why the stars are finally aligning for the Wallabies
Australia’s challenge against South Africa on Saturday is huge, but coaching changes and new rules designed to speed up the game bode well for the Wallabies.
- Simon Poidevin
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JB Hi-Fi’s results weren’t great. Here’s why its stock still soared
The retailer’s stunning share price surge shouldn’t distract investors from the pressure we’re seeing on profit margins as the economy slows.
- James Thomson
Shell, PetroChina to expand massive Surat coal seam gas project
The investment, expected to cost billions of dollars, will supply export customers and the domestic market, where regulators have warned of looming shortages.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
JB Hi-Fi looks for growth and rewards investors amid resilient sales
The major electronics and consumer goods retailer will move into the commercial builder market with the purchase of kitchen and bathroom group E&S Trading.
- Carrie LaFrenz
- Opinion
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Paris 2024 was the Olympic Games of the new era
The city of light has shown it’s not only possible to adapt to change while remaining true to yourself, it’s a necessity.
- Tracey Holmes
Haigh and Lalor eye a longer boundary for cricket writers
Gideon Haigh and Peter Lalor spent decades reporting on the sport. Now they’re hoping readers will pay for specialised coverage with Cricket Et Al.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Tim Bishop’s Wollemi Capital hires former NSW treasurer Matt Kean
The former state Liberal deputy leader and energy minister was appointed chairman of the federal government’s Climate Change Authority less than two months ago.
- Kylar Loussikian
Overdue loans swamp private credit giant lending to Sydney’s wealthy
The local lender has previously written loans for some of Sydney’s most colourful businessmen. Growing arrears aren’t always made clear to its investors.
- Primrose Riordan, Aaron Weinman and Jonathan Shapiro
Optus falls out with its mobile towers investor AustralianSuper
The country’s largest super fund acquired a controlling stake in the telco’s infrastructure business for almost $2 billion in 2021. But relations have since soured.
- Aaron Weinman and Jenny Wiggins
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Union iron ore claim poses risks for green superpower hopes
Let’s hope for the sake of Australia’s energy transition that we don’t return to the bad old days of industrial disruption in the Pilbara.
- The AFR View
Yesterday
BHP forced to negotiate in new push to unionise Pilbara
Unions have forced BHP to the negotiating table and are demanding Rio Tinto do the same, a big breakthrough in their attempts to re-unionise the country’s biggest export industry after decades on the sidelines.
- Brad Thompson
Inghams director warns: Guzman y Gomez store will attract ‘riff-raff’
Behind the minor fracas is a bigger question about whether the country’s biggest poultry producer can continue to squeeze big profits from fast food chains.
- Jemima Whyte
- Analysis
- Media & marketing
REA’s success exposes shrinking Domain
The growth engine for Nine Entertainment, property classifieds platform Domain, has not been firing – and is losing ground to News Corp-controlled REA Group.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Networks seek legal advice as gambling signs evade ad ban
The government has told networks it cannot block betting companies from advertising on sports jerseys or around sporting grounds. Broadcasters disagree.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones and Ronald Mizen
Shareholders move against Metcash as hardware spin-out hopes fade
Street Talk understands influential shareholders harbouring concerns about Metcash’s Independent Hardware Group as Wesfarmer’s Tool Kit Depot ramps up its national expansion.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Magellan fund redemptions put shareholders on edge
Anxious shareholders were rattled by the $800 million in funds under management that walked out the door from the Magellan Global Fund in July.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Fletcher Building sells Tradelink to one of America’s richest families
Blackfriars is controlled by the secretive Colburn family, and was self-advised.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
How female Olympians are boosting their popularity without media help
Enthusiasm for lesser-known sports tends to die off at the end of each Olympic Games but some women are doing their own promotion.
- Lucy Slade
