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It was mid-October 2010 and GPT chief Michael Cameron had plenty to crow about. Once the heavyweight of Australia's property trust sector, GPT's perilous leverage had nearly sent it to the grave during the global financial crisis.

The former chief executive of crisis company Boart Longyear has spoken for the first time since his sacking, and expressed his sadness at the mining services company's recent struggles.

Three of Australia's biggest banks are tipped to churn out profit growth of up to 10 per cent alongside higher dividends when they report their annual earnings over the next two weeks, despite the weakening trend engulfing much of the economy.

Competition tsar Rod Sims is confident police will arrest fugitive conman Peter Foster, who boasted on the weekend that he had fled to Fiji.

The curse of CBD has struck down the Australia's Worst Journalist website run by disgraced former doctor Geoffrey Edelsten.

The last car rolled off the assembly line at PSA Peugeot Citroen's factory in Aulnay-sous-Bois on Friday, marking the end of four decades of production at the plant on the outskirts of Paris.

Pernod Ricard, the world's second-biggest drinks company and owner of the Jacob's Creek label, is the latest beverages group to warn that consumer demand for premium brands in China is being punctured by the government's clampdown on banquet spending and other austerity measures.

A ruling by a Cayman Islands judge may stop the Australian Tax Office investigating assets secretly held in the tax haven, experts say.

Most Australians think companies should pay their fair share of tax and support new regulation to improve transparency and reduce profit-shifting by multinationals.

Stocks in three of the big four banks have hit record highs ahead of their earnings season, boosting the local sharemarket as it looks set to start the week above its five-year peak.

Electronics chain Dick Smith believes the local market could support as many as 30 of its Move concept stores - a specialist mobile and wireless device retailer that fuses fashion and tech - as the group prepares for its $600 million sharemarket float slated for as early as Christmas.

Mongolia and Rio Tinto have resolved some of the disputes that have stalled the expansion of their $6.6 billion Oyu Tolgoi copper mine.

A former executive who was sent to jail for insider trading but then released on appeal with his conviction quashed has slammed the corporate regulator for the way it conducted its case against him.

The increasing popularity of self-managed super funds is undeniable. From about 70,000 SMSFs in 1994, the number has increased to just short of 510,000 by June 30, 2013. Of the $1.58 trillion invested through Australian super funds, SMSFs control $496.2 billion, making it the largest sector of the superannuation industry.

The sky is just one of many odd spots for business talks, writes Adam Courtenay.

It's the question every business owner wants the answer to. How to build a $100 million business?