Market insights

Economic data released in July show soft global economic growth, some easing of tight labour markets but still patchy progress reducing inflation. After the first cuts in official interest by some central banks in June, few have been able to follow up with cuts in...

In two weeks, the RBA holds its August interest rate setting meeting and there is an active debate about whether the RBA will leave the cash rate unchanged at 4.35% or will hike 25bps to 4.60%. Our view is that the bar is set very high for the RBA to consider another...

Rising prices and rising rent feature in most forecasts of housing in Australia’s capital cities, Melbourne excepted. The main driving forces for the forecasts are the under-supply of housing relative to strong demand driven by population growth and a range of other...

The rising cost of living has become a big, if not the biggest, concern for most Australian households. The usual measure of the rising cost of living is the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the most important version of the CPI, at least as far as the RBA is concerned,...

What promised to be another strong month for risk assets in June driven by hope of official interest rate cuts was marred for some in Europe by rising concern about the strong electoral performance of far-right political parties threatening to turn back further the...