ANALYSIS: Is Smiths City’s voluntary administration the last straw for the investment group?
Shoeshine: Like the boy who cried wolf, Fletcher has assured the market it has come clean on everything too many times now.
Shoeshine: Vector's regular complaints against the impact of the Commerce Commission's restraints could be viewed as a ritual performance.
Shoeshine: Cavalier keeps saying better times are ahead, but are they really?
Shoeshine: Strange behaviour by the Reserve Bank.
“Decisive” isn't a word Shoeshine would use to describe Sir Ralph Norris' obvious reluctance to hold Mark Adamson or himself accountable.
Cutting losses is never easy because it means directors and managers have to stand up and admit they made a mistake.
But will changes to immigration policy hurt those that staff the sector?
Market rules exist for the same reason motorway rules exist: to avoid mayhem.
No need to see a human, just ask a machine.