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Welcome to Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our best insights to get you...

Small Central Bank Interest Rate Decision Tracker: Back again onto one of my favorite charts — this one tracks monetary policy interest rate moves across the...

The RBA hiked rates for the sixth consecutive month. With lead indicators showing signs of inflation coming off the boil and European banks starting to see stress,...

While equity markets continue to tumble in the face of a rising Fed, fixed income is getting attention. Asset allocators, after being rocked by the historic sell-off...

Inflation may be the common enemy of global finance right now, but every central bank has different ways of dealing with it.  In the US, Federal Reserve Chairman...

The Australian economy is in the cross-hairs of an economic dilemma. On one hand, we have what the world wants – our commodities, our world-leading standard of...

Why do we trust money? Paper money or fiat currency* is essentially about trust. We exchange things for money: our labour, something we own like a house or car, or a...

Cast your mind back to March 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic was shutting the world down. To save the economy and thousands of SMEs from going bankrupt, the...

For all the hubbub of inflation being the kryptonite of markets, very few of us realised that it would be rising rates that would really do the trick.  Since the RBA...

While many wait and hope for a Fed pause or pivot - hanging on every piece of text and utterance from the Fed, the real focus should be on inflation expectations....