economic outlook

Patience needed on US rate cut prospects

The US quarterly earnings are upon us and Maqro's Mark Gardner expects it will provide big insights into the real economy.

This is a critical time for investors and policymakers alike. Geopolitical tensions, elevated market volatility, and the fastest pace of central bank tightening in...

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...

Aside from a short period of global market unrest triggered by meme stock trading, investor sentiment has remained broadly positive through the first few weeks of the...

It’s been a blessed few months since I last wrote about Brexit. Unfortunately, however, with it once again reclaiming newspaper headlines, Brexit can no longer be...

This year, the hits have come hard and fast, with the global pandemic wreaking economic devastation and seemingly changing life as we know it. Fear and anxiety have...

Escalating COVID-19 infection rates in the U.S. have forced a rollback of many economic opening measures, potentially uprooting the already fragile recovery in U.S....

Although the second quarter of 2020 will mark the worst quarter for United States and global growth since World War II, market uncertainty and peak fear have passed...

One factor I have been watching closely is the spread of the coronavirus through summer or tropical countries. For most of February, it appeared travellers brought...

There is a simple secret to building long-term wealth - earn consistent, attractive returns on capital, re-invest these returns and allow them to compound and...

Let’s start by defining what a recession actually is. Google’s dictionary defines it as ‘a period of temporary economic decline during which trading and industrial...

To understand where we are heading it is always important to look back at where we have come from. With that in mind, the Australian economy continued its...

I spent a lot of time in the 2017 End of Year Special Edition looking back across the year, covering some of my best charts and calls (and some of the worst!). But...