Elizabeth Knight

Sydney

Writer at Sydney Morning Herald

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Your next shop will be a lot cheaper as big supermarkets go to war

3 days ago | smh.com.au | Elizabeth Knight

Business columnist May 12, 2025 — 3.35pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Woolworths has fired the first shot in a $100 million cost of living trolley land grab. Let the grocery discounting wars begin!As the supermarket that is perceived to be the most expensive, its chief executive, Amanda Bardwell, had little choice other than to mount a highly visible price-cutting campaign.
Forces unite in the hunt to expose more Murdoch family dirt

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Elizabeth Knight

Business columnist May 8, 2025 — 3.41pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Murdoch family feud has been a gift that keeps giving for those fascinated by the dynastic machinations of one of the most famous families in the world. And media hounds are now lining up for the next round of the fight.
Buying a house is hard now but it could get much worse

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Elizabeth Knight

Business columnist May 7, 2025 — 3.33pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Interest rates falling to 2.6 per cent within a year seemed like a fantasy until the National Australia Bank made that bold call. And the ramifications for house prices are equally far-reaching. We may need to brace for house price lift-off.
Buying a house is hard now but it could get much worse

1 week ago | watoday.com.au | Elizabeth Knight

The NAB expects the Reserve Bank to cut rates by 50 basis points in May, followed by 25 basis points in July, August, November and February. NAB economists forecast rolling rate cuts this year.Credit: Penny StephensThe other major banks are also lining up with forecasts on the Reserve Bank’s lowering of rates, but none are yet suggesting it will move to lower rates at the sort of velocity predicted by the NAB.
Now it’s Hollywood’s turn for a Trump scorching

1 week ago | watoday.com.au | Elizabeth Knight

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Now it’s Hollywood’s turn for a Trump scorching

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Elizabeth Knight

Business columnist May 6, 2025 — 3.25pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If Donald Trump’s new tariff thought bubble aimed at Making Hollywood Great Again is as damaging as most expect, then the US movie industry can stand in line with others – like the auto sector – that have found that resuscitation, Trump-style, has more of a palliative feel.
WBC) One of Australia’s biggest banks is backing Anthony Albanese to help weather the Trump shipwreck

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Elizabeth Knight

Business columnist May 5, 2025 — 3.46pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As the first major Australian company out of the blocks since Labor’s comprehensive election win at the weekend, it was up to Westpac’s boss to give us the good oil on big business’ verdict. That whoosh you heard on Sunday, as Labor did its victory lap, was a collective exhale of relief from the big end of town.
Kmart is beating up Big W and giving Woolies a major headache

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Elizabeth Knight

Business columnist May 1, 2025 — 3.49pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Woolworths is running out of excuses for the performance of its discount department store – Big W, which will lose $70 million in the six months to June this year. Losing money has become something of a habit for Big W, and with Woolworths losing ground to Coles in the grocery game, a teetering department store is the last thing it needs.
The billionaire and the bully: Trump’s strong-arm phone call with Amazon’s Bezos

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Elizabeth Knight

Business columnist April 30, 2025 — 3.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. You could have sold premium-priced tickets (even with a tariff) to listen in on the “feedback” phone call from US President Donald Trump to billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos this week regarding the company’s plan to itemise how the Trump tariff toll could increase prices on Amazon products.
Shearwater Health Earns Great Place to Work® Certification Across U.S., Philippines, and India

2 weeks ago | businesswire.com | Elizabeth Knight

The inaugural global engagement survey provides certification for all countries in which the company operates. NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shearwater Health, a leader in clinician-led clinical solutions for healthcare partners, proudly announces its certification as a Great Place to Work® across all of its markets: the United States, Philippines, and India.