North Asia too: Gold has divorced from all fundamentals. Other commods not so much: Big miners are saying Chinese yawnulus: ...

I noted earlier this week that Australia’s homeownership rate collapsed in the 40 years to 2021, as illustrated by the ...

The Housing Industry Association (HIA) claims that Australia desperately needs 83,ooo tradies to meet the Albanese government ...

Yesterday we had more evidence that the RBA is reading the big pivot to a December rate cut when economics governor, Sarah ...

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has cut the official cash rate by 0.75% over the past two monetary policy meetings. Despite ...

Stocks are overboughterer. They are not priced for Trump tariffs. The Market Ear has more. Rising wedge Did NASDAQ fool ...

Labor’s first federal budget, released in October 2022, projected net overseas migration (NOM) of 470,000 over the first two ...

The Actuaries Institute reported in August that 1.6 million Australian households were experiencing financial stress as a result of escalating home insurance costs. This was a 360,000-household rise, ...

The opposition has opened a second front in the fight over energy policy by pledging to include gas in the capacity investment scheme, the federal government’s flagship policy spurring investment in ...

Anthony Albanese should be congratulated. As the son of a single mother, Albanese grew up in struggle street, reached the highest office in the land, and did well along the way in terms of ...

This month, we have received four critical pieces of data showing that Australian dwelling construction is sick, pointing to worsening shortages. First, only 166,200 dwellings were approved for ...

Westpac with the note. The Leading Index growth rate has been slightly negative for the best part of a year now. That in itself is fairly rare – this is one of the longest periods of ‘middling’ reads ...