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For the first time since November 2010, the cash rate target has been lifted in Australia and for the first time since the reign of Glenn Stevens, the monetary...

Australian rate adjustments often follow those in New Zealand. So when the Reserve Bank of New Zealand last week lifted its official cash rate by 25 basis points to...

Interest rate hikes and global inflationary pressures, as well as the withdrawal of stimulus programs and geopolitical risks, are expected to increase volatility...

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) balance sheet tightening in 2023 may frame its window to hike rates, since it gives a natural pause to see the effect of...

The RBA’s bond-buying will end soon, Philip Lowe confirmed on Tuesday, also conceding the “plausibility” of a rate rise as early as this year. In this wire, Glenn...

In a research note over the weekend, Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius wrote that while they expect the Fed to lift rates four times in 2022, the risks are...

Tim Toohey from Yarra Capital – who was rated Australia’s number one economist for 13 consecutive years – recently sat down with Malcolm Maiden to share his latest...

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....

The Reserve Bank of Australia yesterday left the official interest rate of 0.1% unchanged but abandoned the Australian Commonwealth Government Bond yield curve target...

Yes, there’s a new Bond in town, the latest blockbuster of the 007 film franchise hitting screens in the US a few days ago. But in the world of finance, it’s a...

Today's income investors might be forgiven for thinking the old certainties are not only upside down but all over the place. It's bewildering. Asset classes that...

The risk of your fixed-income portfolio is currently around double what it was 10 years ago, at the same time as bond yields remain depressed – not a good combination....

We’re in a place we could never have foreseen just 18 months ago, and in more ways than one. COVID, of course, blindsided everyone. But looking back a little over a...

In the AFR this weekend I write that if the RBA’s powerful board was considering the possibility of pre-emptively tapering its monetary policy stimulus, recent...

When Treasurer Josh Frydenberg unveiled his “Securing Australia’s Recovery” budget, he delivered his address to Parliament without uttering the words “quantitative...

By now most investors are tiring of their inboxes being filled by sell-side economists and strategists talking about reflation, how much more optimistic they are...

The local market started positive and faded to flat, before global buying after lunch in the large caps drove the market into a positive low turnover day. We continue...

To say that government debt levels are high is nothing new. Even before COVID hit, despite years of austerity, debt levels were already extremely elevated. But after...

The stock market tends to be driven by narrative. For much of last year, the narrative was that bad news was good news. Bad economic news meant bond yields fell and...

Most of the time, financial markets ebb and flow like the tide. All boats are lifted or fall together. But sometimes, different assets part company, responding to the...