After months of strong results, Australia’s auction market has experienced a loss of momentum alongside a stalling of price ...

Goldman shows why Australia’s rental shock isn’t over. Weekly data from SQM suggest growth has picked up somewhat over recent months (Exhibit 6). The SQM data tends to lead CPI rent inflation ...

Ferrous market prices are holding as steel output plunges. CISA has been catching down to cratered offical data in recent months. Chinese export data for July showed steel exports still going ...

Exorbitant land costs are the primary driver of Australia’s high home prices. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), residential land values, which underpin the housing market ...

By Stephen Saunders Despite July’s highly aggressive return-visit from UNFCCC bovver-boy Simon Stiell, the Coalition seems unlikely to seriously challenge Labor’s net zero cult. Albanese Labor ...

I have warned repeatedly that Australia’s labour market has been living in a ‘fool’s paradise’. The nation’s unemployment rate remains historically low at 4.3% and the Reserve Bank of ...

In the lead-up to the 2022 federal election, Labor promised to run a smaller immigration policy if elected. However, as soon as they came to office, they convened the Jobs & Skills Summit, which ...

One of the negative side effects of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA), which took effect in 2005, was that it increased patent and copyright terms, raising the price of ...

Australian inflation is rapidly becoming a one-trick pony as energy price hikes devour everything in their path. Various government energy rebates are still having a big effect as they roll off ...

It looks like a new and dovish Fed chair is front-running. Bloomberg. Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller is emerging as a top candidate to serve as the central bank’s chair among ...