macroeconomics

It is still too early to tell if 2022 will end with a bang or a thud in financial markets. But the shared pain across traditional fixed income and equity assets has...

The US Federal Reserve hiked by another 0.75% at its November meeting. There has been a remarkable amount of tightening in a short period of time. Equities and rates...

Global Markets It was all about the Fed again last week, as further hawkish commentary pushed U.S. bond yields higher and U.S. stocks lower. In what seemed a shock to...

In case you didn't have time to read KKR's latest 60-page report, Livewire has summarised some of the key points for you. It highlights everything from the asset...

With the clock ticking over to 2022, the world will have endured two years of COVID-19. But despite the well-documented challenges, 2021 was a successful year for...

An analysis of the industry split of wages shows why the RBA is sceptical that wages can accelerate fast enough to justify market expectations of rate hikes next year....

Times like these, as tough as they are, create opportunity. In this wire, Loomis Sayles' vice president and global equities portfolio manager, Eileen Riley, reveals...

The pandemic has had an extreme impact on economies and markets, yet there is an even stronger force that few are comfortable acknowledging. It has helped mitigate the...

The Delta outbreak has seen a big decline in hours worked, a fall in employment and a lower unemployment rate. The Delta outbreak has seen a large hit to activity in...

With last year showing the importance of government support in limiting the economic fall-out from the pandemic and contributing to economic recovery, the NSW...

Welcome back to Off the Charts! bringing you everything you need to know from markets (and some things you don't). The world of crypto was as bonkers as ever this...

Gold moves on inflation (... finally) There has been ample talk and plenty of anecdotal evidence of inflation this year, none of which has seemed to elicit much of a...

The health crisis that combined elements of the Spanish flu pandemic, the Great Depression and the GFC helped redefine what fiscal and monetary policies can achieve....

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...

Following on from our assessment a month ago about the likely path of a post COVID-19 recovery, we update the recent macro data and look at bond market options. ...

Risk assets, in particular the equity market, even after last night, are still pricing in a decidedly V-shaped recovery from the COVID-19 lockdown and subsequent...

In the past week client questions have centred around five key topics. These are our answers. 1. How ‘wrong’ is consensus on economic growth? Traditional...

Our high-level investment view for this year is that a combination of improving global growth boosting profits and still easy monetary conditions will help drive...

How good are you at reading people? How about a large frightened animal? It’s an interesting question, in today’s tech driven social world, to consider the skill of...