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Chief economist update: An extra mile for a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... struck. Instead, both the UK and the EU agreed to kick the can further and closer to New Year's Eve. As The Guardian newspaper headlines, "Johnson and EU vow to go 'extra mile' to thrash out Brexit deal". However, the paper's sub-heading ...

Clive Palmer ramps up calls for Shipton's head

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
Controversial businessman and leader of the United Australia Party Clive Palmer has mounted an advertising campaign calling for ASIC chair James Shipton to resign. Palmer took out full-page ads in several state and national newspapers with the copy ...

Vatican shakes up financial management

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... millions of dollars into. It appeared to mostly back Hollywood film projects, energy company and tech startups. Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra reported that all Centurion investment funds were held by Banca Zarattini, a small Swiss bank which ...

Chief economist update: Communists' party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
... and positive - fruit of its hard lockdown, responses. "Sour grapes" is what the state-backed 'Global Times' newspaper called the negative nellies. Adding that Wuhan is "now welcoming an influx of tourists, and its economy is reviving, which local ...

Mixed results at Bjelke-Peterson estate sale

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
A Lloyds auction of the estate of controversial former Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Peterson produced mixed results. One of the big ticket items was a piece of paraphernalia from 1969, when the astronauts who landed on the moon toured the world attending ...

Chief economist update: Escape from Victoria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... ago - 21% wanted to go to Brisbane, 17% to Perth and 15% to Sydney." In addition, this headline from the Herald Sun newspaper: "Coronavirus: Tradies will abandon Victoria as building economy plunges over next two years" as "Chippies, brickies and tilers ...

Bezos adds billions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... backlash around security and privacy concerns. Alongside Amazon, Bezos also owns space exploration company Blue Origin and newspaper The Washington Post which he bought for $250 million in 2013. Bezos' ex-wife also saw a surge in her wealth, after obtaining ...

Warren Buffett allegedly conned by German company

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... photo-shopping letterheads of companies to create fake invoices and orders, according to the Guardian story which cites German newspaper Handelsblatt. The effect was the EBITDA of the German manufacturer, and hence its acquisition value, were wildly ...

ISA, ME Bank issued please explain

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
Industry Super Australia and ME Bank will front the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics on Thursday for an urgent hearing. The call for explanations from the bank and ISA comes following news that ME Bank, which is owned by 26 industry ...

Chief economist update: The outlook for Australia, according to COVID-19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
"A stronger economic recovery is possible if there is further substantial progress in containing the coronavirus in the near term and there is a faster return to normal economic activity. On the other hand, if the lifting of restrictions is delayed ...