02:22AM | Alan Jury ajury@afr.com.au | The Australian Financial Review
The latest Securities and Exchange Commission filing by the US-based Centro NP entity indicates the extent of stress on the group as it restructures to provide its bankers with more comfort at the same time as a slowing US economy is eating into revenue.
20 August 2008 | Alan Jury. ajury@afr.com.au | The Australian Financial Review
Kevin McCann and Grant King don't fit the stereotype of gambling high rollers but they're engaged in a pretty high-stakes game of Texas hold 'em
19 August 2008 | Alan Jury ajury@afr.com.au | The Australian Financial Review
The unveiling of BHP Billiton's strong $US15.4 billion ($17.8 billion) 2008 profit (its seventh successive record) was a carefully choreographed and brilliantly executed production full of superlatives, growth options and a tantalising 52 per cent lift in final dividend that took the annual dividend rise to 49 per cent and lifted the payout ratio from 20 per cent to 25 per cent.
16 August 2008 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
The challenge facing Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief executive Ralph Norris when presenting CBA's annual results last Wednesday was to deliver something that satisfied his investors without alienating any of his diverse group of customers
15 August 2008 | Alan Jury ajury@afr.com.au | The Australian Financial Review
The bumper result from Leighton Holdings and the ebullient prognostication from its chief executive, Wal King, represent the other side of the infrastructure story from the financially engineered special-purpose investment vehicles.
14 August 2008 | Alan Jury. ajury@afr.com.au | The Australian Financial Review
Sol Trujillo must have spent a lot of time as a young lad watching The Jetsons - an animated prime-time television show set in a future where everything is wired and available instantly at the push of a button - because the world inhabited by the Jetsons is eerily like the one Trujillo envisages for Telstra Corporation
13 August 2008 | Alan Jury Alan Juryajury@afr.com.au | The Australian Financial Review
Paul Fegan is a happy dragon
12 August 2008 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
Stephen Gerlach's determination to take control of the agenda at Futuris Corporation and expedite the company's restructuring is very evident in the "noise abatement" notice put out by the company yesterday
09 August 2008 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
Like a mambo sticking pins into a voodoo doll, Westpac Banking Corporation chief executive Gail Kelly took advantage of the uncertainty created by declining economic activity and the recent increases in loan loss provisions by some of her competitors to depart from normal Westpac practice and provide profit guidance.
08 August 2008 | Alan Jury ajury@afr.com.au | The Australian Financial Review
Tabcorp Holdings chief executive Elmer Funke Kupper has put the casino and wagering giant through a crash fitness course to create a leaner and fitter entity, albeit one still facing some daunting challenges
07 August 2008 | Alan Jury. ajury@afr.com.au | The Australian Financial Review
Not even communications difficulties that temporarily delayed his participation from Beijing in a multinational conference call with analysts and investors could curb Rupert Murdoch's natural optimism.
06 August 2008 | Alan Jury ajury@afr.com.au | The Australian Financial Review
Given the turbulent times we are living in, it was important for Axa Asia Pacific Holdings, as one of the first S&P/ASX 200 companies to report for the June 2008 half-year, to get the ball rolling with a pleasant investor experience - and it did.
05 August 2008 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
Confirmation yesterday that Asciano has been targeted by a private equity buy-out consortium is possibly even less of a surprise than news last week that Geoff Dixon will be retiring from Qantas Airways later this year
02 August 2008 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
Suncorp boss John Mulcahy joined his counterparts from National Australia Bank and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group in the banking confessional booth on Friday
01 August 2008 | Alan Jury. ajury@afr.com.au | The Australian Financial Review
Holy sheet, Batman! Investors who stumped up $1 for stapled units in the BrisConnections Unit Trusts just a couple of weeks ago dumped them unceremoniously when they made their debut on the Australian Stock Exchange yesterday
31 July 2008 | Alan Jury. ajury@afr.com.au | The Australian Financial Review
Many in the markets are experiencing a bitter sense of deja vu in the latest profit downgrade from Aristocrat Leisure, coming one day after chairman David Simpson said chief executive Paul Oneile wouldn't be staying on after his contract expired on December 31
30 July 2008 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
The listing tomorrow of the BrisConnections Unit Trusts is a big deal
30 July 2008 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
The listing tomorrow of the BrisConnections Unit Trusts is a big deal
29 July 2008 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's Mike Smith may be sharing the hot seat at the front of the bear market big dipper with National Australia Bank's John Stewart, but their bank chief executive peers have all got their own seats on the roller-coaster.
26 July 2008 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
Sydney's troubled Lane Cove Tunnel tollway may be about to receive some good news
25 July 2008 | Alan Jury ajury@afr.com.au (Alan Jury has a beneficial interest in Macquarie Group securities.) | The Australian Financial Review
Nicholas Moore's hosing down of profit expectations for Macquarie Group this year, while neither unexpected nor inconsistent with previous comments, certainly won't help the company move away from the top of the list of Australian companies most favoured by short sellers
24 July 2008 | Alan Jury ajury@afr.com.au | The Australian Financial Review
Banks are back in centre stage
23 July 2008 | Alan Jury. ajury@afr.com.au | The Australian Financial Review
Buying someone else's hand-me-downs sounds so gauche, even when economic conditions call for some belt-tightening
22 July 2008 | The Australian Financial Review
There are a couple of messages in the appointment of former Unilever and Cadbury Schweppes executive Ian Johnston as acting chief executive of Foster's Group.
19 July 2008 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review
ASX boss Rob Elstone is one chief executive eagerly anticipating the proclamation of Penny Wong's bill to set up a carbon pollution reduction scheme
The US appears to be putting its houses - Fannie and Freddie - in order, writes Glenn Mumford.
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