Eric Johnston

Sydney

Associate Editor, Business at The Australian

Associate Editor - Business, The Australian. Melbourne northerner. Biker.

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Infowars | FCCJ

3 weeks ago | fccj.or.jp | Dan Sloan |Eric Johnston

April 2025 | Cover storyThe Trump administration has fired the first salvos in its battle of wills with sections of the U.S. media Much has transpired since the U.S. presidential election in November and the inauguration of Donald Trump in January.
Eric Johnston at The Australian

Dec 5, 2024 | stockhead.com.au | Eric Johnston

Get the latest Stockhead news delivered free to your inbox For investors, getting access to the right information is critical. Stockhead’s daily newsletters make things simple: Markets coverage, company profiles and industry insights from Australia’s best business journalists – all collated and delivered straight to your inbox every day.
Pulling the plug

Jun 4, 2024 | fccj.or.jp | David McNeill |Eric Johnston

June 2024 | Cover storyCBS News’ departure is the latest in a long line of bureau closuresSuch was the importance accorded to the death of Japan’s Emperor Hirohito by American television network CBS in 1989 that 95 people covered it. “They sent in Dan Rather and an entire team to present the CBS Evening News in Tokyo for a week,” to supplement bureau staff, said Randy Schmidt, a former cameraman-editor with itsTokyo news bureau.
Qantas battling workers’ union over illegal Covid era outsourcing compensation

May 29, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Eric Johnston |Tim Dodd |Nathan Schmidt

Embattled national airline Qantas had a “laser-like focus on saving money by any means” before they unlawfully sacked ground service staff, a court has been told. The flying kangaroo was thrice found to have acted unlawfully when it fired 1700 staff in favour of outsourced contractors during the height of the Covid pandemic.
They’re all said to be Sells. But the Big Four just reported a combined $15bn post-tax profit

May 8, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Christian Edwards |Eric Johnston |David Ross

By Middlemarch – if that’s a time and not a place – the brokers at Macquarie Bank were starting to turn on their four larger brethren. The higher-for-shorter surge in the Big Four share prices, which almost single-handedly led the ASX 200 to clock its most recent record all-time high, triggered something dark and fearful which appears to have been brewing in local brokers for some time.
JP Morgan, BlackRock drop out of climate banker cabal, and admit the Net Zero transition is “delayed”

May 5, 2024 | joannenova.com.au | Jo Nova |Andrew Lee |Irina Slav |Eric Johnston

By Jo NovaSurprise! The World’s biggest bankers are suddenly energy pragmatistsIn February three of the four largest financial houses in the world, left the giant financial cabal called“Climate 100+” (the fourth one left a year ago). BlackRock, JP Morgan and State Street all parted ways with the billionaire-club of philanthropists trying to bully the world into buying their own renewables.
Is your financial advice holding you back?

Apr 21, 2024 | capegazette.com | Eric Johnston

Financial planning for retirement has been an established industry for at least 30 years at this point. The software for doing the planning has come such a long way. Some of the earliest packages were run on DOS-based computers, if you remember what that was. In 1993, one of the first financial planning software packages was called Leonard 2000.
Star faced uncertain future: second Bell inquiry

Apr 19, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Eric Johnston |Madura McCormack |Jack Quail |Glen Norris

Allegations of spying, a mysterious whistleblower and fraud, all set against the backdrop of highroller gaming rooms and high-stakes gambling. The revelations at the first week of the second Bell inquiry into Star’s suitability to keep its Sydney casino licence had all the makings of a cheap paperback novel. But the stakes are higher for Star and already fragile state economies than throwaway fiction.
Qantas frequent flyer rewards points: Airline announces 20 million more rewards seats, $100M investment

Apr 7, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Madeleine Achenza |Nina Molina |Eric Johnston

Qantas is overhauling its loyalty program to offer 20 million extra seats to frequent flyers – but at a much higher cost. Frequent flyers will get access to more than 20 million seats on international flights as part of a $100m expansion of the loyalty program, the airline announced on Monday. But there’s a catch.
Australian share market slips as CPI data prints below expectations

Feb 28, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Jack Quail |Eric Johnston

The Australian share market snapped a four-day winning streak in a subdued trading session on Wednesday even as fresh inflation data showed softer than expected consumer price growth in January. At the culmination of trade, the benchmark index, the S&P/ASX200 slipped 2.6 points lower to 7,660.4, while the All Ordinaries fared slightly worse, down 0.1 per cent to 7,917.1. The Australian dollar shed 0.4 per cent by the closing bell to buy $US65.18c.