macroeconomics

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...

Quantitative easing (QE) is the process by which central banks inject money directly into the financial system, usually through the purchase of government bonds using...

A good chart distils terabytes of data into a small image that delivers a big message. And to cherry-pick the messages investors need to hear most right now, we asked...

Emerging markets were volatile throughout 2018, especially during quarter four as they sold off and took some valuation froth out of the market. This has continued...

January 1996. My wife was 8 months pregnant with our first child. I was a proprietary trader at Bankers Trust (had been since 1991), meaning I took macro views on...

While it is easy for investors to conclude that Australia’s run of economic growth is coming to an end with a housing slowdown, a closer balanced analysis of the...

There is no doubt the Australian economy was weaker in late 2018 than it was during the first half of the year. It seems to have kicked off 2019 on a similarly weak...

In October the whole firm was rounded up and marched over the road to the grand ballroom of the Wentworth Hotel to hear about the launch of the new US Technology Fund....