Home prices keep rising in ‘seller’s market’ as new property listings below average
Australian property prices have pushed higher again in August, as lower interest rates, rising real wages and buyer…
With RBA in their corner, investors are treating shares and property as sure bets — and that’s risky
Asset prices are now regularly soaring to new heights. To be clear, this is not normal. Asset prices,…
AUD/USD extends rally as Fed rate cut bets rise, RBA decision looms
AUD/USD climbs for the fourth straight day, buoyed by a weaker US Dollar and rising expectations of a…
‘Money that can expire’: RBA laying groundwork for a dystopian financial reality where ‘money is given a brain and then the switch is handed to someone else’
Something is happening to money. Not the kind of change you notice right away. The kind that takes…
Could Donald Trump’s power struggle with Federal Reserve create next financial crisis?
Physics often has a funny habit of accurately describing human behaviour. Take Newton’s third law that, for every…
Higher inflation in Australia, everything as expected in New Zealand – Commerzbank
The Australian inflation indicator for April, published this morning, came in at 2.4%, which is slightly higher than…
Longer hours but less productive: Australians need to work ‘smarter’, not harder, report warns
Australia is facing an urgent productivity problem, with a new report showing the country is at a standstill…
A cut and a dovish surprise – Standard Chartered
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut the cash rate by 25bps to 3.85%, as we had expected.…
More interest rate cuts likely as RBA confident it’s beaten inflation, faces Trump tariff risks
The Reserve Bank has cut interest rates amid greater confidence that the inflation battle is won, and will…
Erratic Donald Trump is dark cloud on horizon for Michele Bullock as RBA considers interest rates
A ray of sunshine? Green shoots? You’d like to think that after weathering years of economic storms, surely…
Australia employment soars, Australian Dollar calm
The Australian dollar is showing limited movement on Thursday. In the European session, AUD/USD is trading at 0.6412,…
Crude oil drops to four-year low, promising lower petrol prices and inflation
Australians are starting to feel some cost of living relief as fuel prices begin to fall from long-term…