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Elizabeth Knight

Elizabeth Knight

Elizabeth Knight comments on companies, markets and the economy.

The real-time effects of the policy to remove tax incentives including negative gearing are glaringly clear.

Two big banks have slashed their house price forecasts. The numbers are hair-raising

The signs are difficult to ignore: an avalanche of sellers, increasing levels of stale stock sitting on property portal shelves, and auction clearance rates wallowing around 50 per cent.

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A display of space vision or a billionaire’s vanity projects? The SpaceX Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.

Why some Australian investors will risk punting on Musk’s $2.5 trillion space vision

It’s off to the races for the Musk believers, who appreciate that no matter how many times his big promises have not been met, some of them have.

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Penfolds is the benchmark of Australian wine. But the company behind it keeps struggling.

Penfolds pain: Why our top winemaker keeps getting it wrong

The history of stuff-ups, miscalculations and underachievement at Treasury Wine Estates could fill a book. Now the company has bravely come up with a new master plan.

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Increasing distrust for the OpenAI brand.

The brands that Australians are now hating on, and why

Artificial intelligence businesses and other technology giants have ranked poorly in a new survey of the brands that Australians trust most and least.

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State of Origin

It’s game on in media players’ brutal battle for the NRL

As for NRL supremo Peter V’landys, like any good auctioneer he is tirelessly working the room.

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KPMG has been thrown into turmoil by whistleblower claims.

Snowballing KPMG scandal sure to claim more casualties

The professional services network’s ability to audit its own behaviour has come up woefully short.

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Chief executive of the Business Council of Australia, Bran Black.

Business groups are howling over the budget, and it’s getting messy

The chorus of detractors hasn’t faded since budget night, but has risen to a full-throated roar just as the treasurer introduced the tax legislation to federal parliament.

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Gina Rinehart.

The Rinehart-backed deal that’s created a smorgasbord for conspiracy theorists

Since the Seven West merger, there has been a non-stop tussle over operational control of Southern Cross Media in a media industry version of Game of Thrones. This week’s news is the latest bizarre twist.

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A surge in iron ore and coal prices during the pandemic, and a big spike in oil and gas prices as the war in Ukraine started, distort the overall picture.

Capitalism trumps climate: Why BHP’s green ambitions turned to empty promises

Was then chief executive Andrew Mackenzie just virtue signalling when he declared in 2019 that the mining giant would lead the capitalist pack on greening the world?

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Banks are expected to reduce how much they will lend to new housing investors.

A wave of property sellers has been hit by a buyers’ strike

There is little dispute about whether property prices will cool this year – but there is a range of views on whether the change will be arctic or just chilly.

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