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Housing Market Risk: The US housing market is both better and worse than pre-financial crisis. On the one hand debt to income ratios have come down a lot — meaning...

The good news is that there is evidence that the great Aussie housing crash is stabilising in the vanguard cities of Sydney and Melbourne. As the first chart below...

On December 15 last year, the US Federal Reserve expected its near-zero cash rate (known as the Federal funds rate) to rise only modestly to 0.9 per cent by the end...

In light of the United States’ (US’) August Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, I provide this latest report as an update to some of the key points that I previously...

There’s been a lot of gloom and doom this year – but reports handed down this August were far from disappointing. Several companies returned record profits and...

To say it has been a challenging period for bonds would be an understatement. In fact, the first quarter of this year saw the worst start to a calendar year in...

Australian home values are now shrinking at an annualised rate that exceeds 15% based on the three months of CoreLogic compositionally-adjusted index data to 10...

CoreLogic have just released their official housing data for the entire month of August 2022, which confirms what we feared: both the 5 capital city and 8 capital...

The great Aussie housing collapse continues to break new records with CoreLogic's 5 capital city index losing more than 1.44% in the first 29 days of August, which...

Riding the wave There is a lot of noise in the market now, with inflation numbers coming in at around 6% in Australia and closer to 8% in the USA. Although interest...