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The business community desperately wants the election called now and wants it held quickly. The uncertainty is bad news, writes SmartCompany.com.au publisher Amanda Gome.

Kerry Stokes has emphasised his very close links to China and the Chinese government by proposing to invest up to $US250 million of Seven Group Holdings cash into the forthcoming float of China’s Agricultural Bank.

Wall Street appears to have given US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s $1tn toxic assets plan the thumbs-up, with the Dow surging nearly 500 points on Monday. But what do the pundits think?

Leading Australian company director, Sir Rod Eddington, strongly criticised lofty termination payments last week. Was he so forthright in the News Corporation boardroom last month? Adam Schwab writes:

So who is the Distilled Spirits Council that Senator Fielding and Malcolm Turnbull have gifted $290 million in alcopops tax to? Glenn Dyer invesitgates.

There are few more effective ways of generating a negative return on your investment than by buying a property “off the plan” from a developer, writes Adam Schwab.

The majority of private equity floats of recent years have been disastrous for shareholders, writes Adam Schwab.

It really is time Woolies was forced to defend its position on pokies, writes Stephen Mayne.

After a century of badgering from pinkos and greenies, captains of industry are grudgingly starting to accept that profits are not everything, writes Peter Vogel.

Myer’s dream of a gleaming new Dubai store in the Ibn Battuta Mall has been out on laybuy, maybe shelved, writes Andrew Crook.

The RBA has opted to keep rates on hold, writes Glenn Dyer.

Manufacturing is contracting in Australia, just as it is in the US, Japan, Europe and all other major economies, writes Glenn Dyer.

The 2008 interim profit season officially finished at close of business on Friday but quite a few late-comers are still dribbling out losses, writes Stephen Mayne.

Was last week’s abortive $90 million fund raising by the Ten Network an attempt to bolster its struggling Canadian parent, asks Glenn Dyer?

Our list of every Australian public company that has ever announced a net loss of more than $100 million shows that we had a record 29 entries in 2007-08, writes Stephern Mayne.

Mirvac yesterday admitted what many affordability watchers know: the housing market is manipulated to suit shareholders over householders, writes Karl Fitzgerald.

If an executive is subject to a ‘margin call’ from their lender, could the sale of shares trigger insider trading provisions, asks Adam Schwab?

Every economy in the East is tanking: with Russia and the Ukraine probably the most damaged, writes Glenn Dyer.

The Ten Network has become the second major Australian media group to blink and approach the market for much needed new capital, writes Glenn Dyer.

The Chinalco deal appears to be a disaster for Rio Tinto shareholders and a boon for China, writes Adam Schwab.

Babcock and Brown — once a strapping, cocksure investment bank — has been reduced to a withered wreck, writes Adam Schwab.

Rupert Murdoch’s New Corporation is continuing its cost-cutting ways, writes Glenn Dyer.

The US car industry is in deeper dispair at the start of 2009 than it was at the end of 2008, writes Glenn Dyer.