Some brickbats and bouquets for whatever it is that happened in 2024.
When Smithfield Foods was bought out by a Chinese firm in 2013, its CEO reportedly had to answer to his mother, who asked why he sold to the communists.
There haven't been many failed takeover offers in recent times that Shoeshine can look back in hindsight.
The local sharemarket has more than its fair share of highly illiquid, small or medium-sized companies that don't attract much analyst coverage, if any at all.
Shoeshine must be getting old.
Fonterra was quick to respond last week when ratings agency Standard & Poor's put the co-operative on credit watch.
The sharemarket is suddenly looking busier in terms of corporate activity, with a few more initial public offers inching their way into the pipeline.
Australian-owned banks are, meanwhile, likely to be in the gun if there is a change in government.
Shoeshine hopes the banking regulators inside the Reserve Bank have an eye on what's happening the parents of our “big four” banks.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, which explains why Cavalier Corporation is putting its carpet business through the cash wringer.
