Victoria’s 2025‑26 Mid‑Year Financial Report was released on Friday and showed that the state’s net debt has increased by $10 billion in six months, reaching $160.9 billion: Net debt as a share of the ...

Charts from TME. Stocks printed a large hammer reversal as the G7 and Trump TACO rescued the day. God bless it. VIX is mean-reverting, so if we see an incremental shift towards the TACO from here, ...

DXY flamed out last night on the G7 unpledge to release petroleum reserves. AUD reversed all of the losses. Oil tanked. North Asia is still struggling. The AI metal swoon reversed. As did the mining ...

I noted on Monday how Australia is facing rising energy costs on three fronts: Soaring petrol/diesel prices Rising gas prices Rising electricity prices. The most immediate shock is higher ...

The G7 will bail out the American Idiot with its strategic petroleum reserve after he proposed a 300-400m/b release, roughly a quarter of the total and equivalent to all of the remaining US strategic ...

As the war in the Middle East continues to drag on, the Trump Administration is seeking a means by which it can be brought to a swift conclusion. One option that is increasingly gaining traction is ...

Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro produced the following chart, showing how Australia’s labour productivity growth (i.e., GDP per hour worked) has ranked among the poorest in the advanced world over ...

The 2020s are shaping up as a decade to forget for Australian households. According to national accounts data released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), real per capita household ...

Australia’s major capital city housing markets have been two-speed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 ...

It may seem counterintuitive, but, in my view, the odds of a Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) rate hike next week are falling by the minute. If the Iran war continues at its current intensity and the ...

Proponents of high levels of immigration typically argue that it lifts productivity and living standards because migrants tend to be better educated and more highly skilled than the average Australian ...

With the likelihood of a protracted war in the Middle East increasing, Australia is facing rising energy prices on three fronts. Rising Oil (Petrol and Diesel) Prices: The price of oil has already ...