With a significant need to refinance global borrowings, both to fund a significant current balance, and a banking sector inordinately exposed to domestic mortgages, Australian mortgagors are ...

The analysis from CEDA argues that Australians are experiencing a renewed rise in economic hardship, with the country’s “misery index” returning to near post-pandemic highs after all improvements ...

The private credit market, which has grown to around $200 billion in assets, has become a key lender to developers as traditional banks pull back from construction lending due to tightening risk ...

The Pilbara killer is eating Fortescue. This is from its quarterly update yesterday. Iron ore sales of 42.9Mt were below shipments, reflecting impacts from ongoing negotiations with China Mineral ...

Goldman isn’t terribly comforting. AI Productivity-Unemployment Link: 1% AI-driven productivity gain → 0.3-0.4pp temporary unemployment peak (fading in 2 years), with gross job losses (0.5-0.6pp) and ...

New University of Melbourne vice chancellor Carolyn Evans told The Melbourne Assembly, hosted by The Age and the University of Melbourne, that the federal government’s efforts to reduce the number of ...

War headlines today. Iran says it bombed seven tankers in 24 hours. US says it is making it up. Houthis bomb Shaybah oilfield. Libyan oil flows disrupted by technical problems. The Madman shock is ...

DXY eased overnight. Notably, it did not surge as a safe haven as everything fell apart. I still think it will. AUD held up with EUR. North Asia is also support. Don’t say I didn’t warn you as gold ...

When former Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull first announced the Snowy Hydro 2.0 pumped hydro project in 2017, it was ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the September labour force survey, and it was a shocker. The headline unemployment rate climbed another 0.1% to 4.7% – the highest reading since ...

Pity the poor university vice-chancellors who draw a third or a half of their students from overseas. Immigration is now firmly on the political agenda—for all major political parties. And the policy ...

Last week, in an interview with News 24, Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Tony Burke refused to concede the Albanese government had made a mistake by allowing net overseas migration to surge ...