australian economy

When considering how well Australia has managed its response to the coronavirus pandemic relative to other countries, Oscar Oberg and Tobias Yao find it difficult to...

Morgan Stanley has just released its mid-year global update. This is an opportunity for our global team of more than 750 analysts, strategists and economists in 21...

As world economies start to bounce back after their COVID-19 lockdowns, inflation is back on the agenda. US Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, thinks the current...

The stock market tends to be driven by narrative. For much of last year, the narrative was that bad news was good news. Bad economic news meant bond yields fell and...

After a year in which Britain almost succumbed to a different sort of wide-ranging existential threat to survival, the words uttered by Winston Churchill in 1940...

US equities are extremely expensive according to long-term valuation measures such as the cyclically-adjusted PE (CAPE) ratio. The CAPE ratio for the S&P500 is...

The Commonwealth budget continues to improve amidst the largest sell-off in the government bond market since 1994 as Coolabah Capital Investments (CCI) has repeatedly...

Australia’s economic recovery continues to underpin a significant improvement in the Commonwealth budget. Last week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that the number...

We believe those who view the exceptional profit upgrades from domestic consumer-related stocks over the last few months as being extremely short-term should consider...

In the depths of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, Billionaire Warren Buffet published an article in the New York Times titled “Buy American, I Am”. The article was a...

Yesterday's drastic action by the Reserve Bank of Australia suggests it is embarking on a last-ditch effort to demonstrate its inflation targeting commitment, even at...

I wanted to talk about the Australian budget. I’m not seeing what the admirers are seeing. At first, I was worried that I’d missed something. But yesterday’s dovish...

Our attention turns locally this week, as the country begins take stock of the coronavirus impacts and look to the future for drivers of Australia’s favourite asset...

Join us as we discuss the ongoing impacts of the coronavirus, and whether Australia's global leading household debt levels may fuel a protracted downturn in our...

As governments and central banks transition from crisis management to maintaining easy conditions and significant financial support for industries, investors can be...

Join us as we discuss CBA’s real-time tracking of the Australian economy, the difficult path ahead, the role of government in stimulating growth, and Gareth’s views on...

Last week RBA Governor Phil Lowe seemingly dealt a savage blow to proponents of the new economic policy frontier that is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Governor Lowe...

Today we look at a rough roadmap of what would need to happen on the road to suspending capitalism and markets being artificially held up indefinitely. Whilst we've...

In a world of uncertainty several of our investors have asked for our broader thoughts. Though we suspect that no sooner that we make public our views the world will...

Australia has been viewed as an outperformer in the global battle against Covid-19, and with justification. Australia’s death toll of 106 and currently just 10 people...