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In world markets (as in most things) Australia is a passenger rather than a driver. And that’s not always bad, especially when you're talking about the US Fed's latest...

Gold prices have continued to trade in a narrow range in December, with the precious metal oscillating around the USD 1,800/oz price point. Assuming there’s no...

Markets are moving at lightning speed in response to the clear and present danger of the halting of economies and changing consumer behaviours.Last weekend Putin flew...

On the 9th March 1987 U2 released the Joshua Tree, the fastest selling British Album of all time that went on to sell over 25 million copies. Joshua Tree is still...

In this second of a three-part series from guest contributor, ex ANZ Chief Economist, Warren Hogan, this note assesses the outlook for US bond yields and explains why...

As expected (by me and pretty much everyone else) the Fed held interest rates unchanged and announced that it would commence its balance sheet normalization plan in...

The latest FOMC meeting included the release of plans for balance sheet normalisation or a transition from QE to QT . Consider this: each time QE was launched in...

As the Fed meets to make its June monetary policy decisions, the consensus (and my view) is that they will hike interest rates again. This will add to the interest...

The New Zealand dollar seems to be defying gravity of late, as the interest rate differential between the RBNZ's OCR and the Fed funds rate continues to move lower. ...