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Mining upside: Rio Tinto’s interim dividend of $12 billion was larger than company’s in the ASX50.
Earnings season

Boomsday scenario: Earnings season set to defy COVID doom

Anyone keen to understand why the sharemarket is hitting record highs despite lockdowns would do well to pay attention to the corporate earnings season.

  • by Colin Kruger
Seven Group CEO Ryan Stokes will be the new chairman of Boral. Seven Group ended up with 69.6 per cent of the company in its takeover offer.
Investing

Ryan Stokes named Boral chair, Seven ups board presence

  • by Alex Druce
The ASX 200 closed at 7,431 points, while the All Ords closed at 7,704 points, record highs for both indices.
Markets Live

As it happened: ASX sags, but July marks 10th straight monthly gain

  • by Alex Druce
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Energy

Origin Energy takes a $2.2b hit as green shift hurts, coal costs bite

  • by Nick Toscano
NAB chief executive Ross McEwan has committed to incorporating the IEA’s report into the bank’s oil and gas policy.
Big four

NAB to launch $2.5b share buyback

  • by Charlotte Grieve
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A half share of 200 George Street, the EY Centre has sold for $575m.
Commercial real estate

AMP Capital raises $575m from sale of EY Centre stake

Investors in AMP Capital’s managed office fund have been given a $575 million windfall with the sale of its stake in the skyscraper at 200 George St, Sydney.

  • by Carolyn Cummins
Atari’s spaceship-like former headquarters at 1076 Centre Road in Oakleigh.
Commercial real estate

Sector to Base: Atari’s Space Invaders HQ finds new owner

Sector Property Group has snapped up the 1980s home of computer game maker Atari for $24.5 million.

  • by Nicole Lindsay
Juxtaposed to the past is a pristine soar-tooth building that accommodates the new basketball court.
Commercial real estate

Hub overcomes diversity challenge with striking architecture

  • by Stephen Crafti
BHP’s South Flank iron ore mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara.
Mining

Ancient sites, rainbow serpents raise risks for Australian miners

  • by James Thornhill
Fast food chains are developing drive-through-only outlets and separate counters and waiting areas for delivery drivers.
Commercial real estate

Fast food, fast delivery, double lane and contact free: KFC and Macca’s new world

  • by Tim Boreham
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Opinion & Perspectives

Oversharing far too easy in the Zoom era

Jim Bright

The daily commute to our workplace helped us set boundaries around our job and home life.

Why politics has gone bad: bureaucrats down, party advisers up

Ross Gittins
Ross Gittins

Ministers are relying less on advice from public servants and relying more on the political advisers in their own offices.

Big Tech has outgrown this planet

Shira Ovide

The already bonkers dollars of tech’s Titanic 5 have become even bonkerser. Maybe that’s why Amazon chief Jeff Bezos wanted to touch outer space.

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Entrepreneurship

Atlassian co-founder and co-chief executive Mike Cannon-Brookes said it was a ripper quarter for the tech company.
Start-ups

‘Become digital or perish’: Atlassian reports ‘ripper’ quarter in tech boom

Co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar saw their wealth increase by $2.35 billion each overnight after Atlassian posted a 29 per cent rise in annual sales, with more growth to come.

  • by Cara Waters
Could it be that some employees are in fact the cause of their boss’s bad behaviour?
Opinion
Managing

Are employees a cause of bad management?

Employees can have an ability to trigger destructive leader behaviour by defying and resisting.

  • by James Adonis
Culture Amp chief executive Didier Elzinga said the startup was getting stronger each quarter.
Start-ups

Culture Amp hits $2 billion valuation as remote work shift pays off

  • by Cara Waters
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Web culture

How tech won the pandemic and now may never lose

  • by David Streitfeld
Jim Fader is the chief executive and co-founder of Eden Brew which is launching dairy free milk using precision fermentation.
Start-ups

CSIRO ‘brews’ milk for animal-free dairy startup

  • by Cara Waters

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