unemployment

According to the latest unemployment statistics, over 300,000 Australians aged between 15-24 are now unemployed and over 280,000 dropped out of the labour force in...

Global equities tried hard to remain positive last week even as new CV-19 cases continued to emerge in Beijing and some U.S. states. After the previous Thursday’s...

Negative interest rates were a hot topic this week. President Trump repeated his support for the idea but even prior to this, several Federal Reserve officials said...

“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything”. George Bernard ShawMeasuring unemployment is a strange...

‘Risk-off’ has been the flavour so far this week. Overnight, US Federal Reserve Chair Powell dismissed all talk of turning to negative rates to address a downturn...

“My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others’ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater...

Economists have been asking for an equivalent of the US monthly payrolls series in Australia for decades. Sure, the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) monthly jobs...

“New moon on Monday, And a fire dance through the night, I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite” Duran Duran Last week’s NAB business survey revealed just how...

Following its one-month 36 per cent decline from peak (20 February 2020) to its low (23 March 2020), the ASX200 has bounced 20 per cent. That’s a return most investors...

Along with the horrible human consequences, the coronavirus pandemic is having a huge impact on the way we live and as a result investment markets. This has raised a...

March 2020 will live long in the memory in investors’ minds. The unprecedented shutdown of developed and emerging market economies to halt the spread of coronavirus...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its November 2019 labour force numbers, which include employment and unemployment data. The figures were better than...

I’ve written a few times recently about the imbalances in the Australian economy and how messed up the Australian housing cycle is. It looks as if the Australian...

Have you ever pushed the limit? Sure you have, just that little bit further, just that little bit faster. It’s the secret to success. But also sometimes disaster…...

If Australia has an Achille’s heal it’s the high and still rising level of household debt that has gone hand in hand with the surge in house prices relative to...

The local property market has become Australia's favourite topic of debate. It seems everyone has a view and just last week UBS released a research note calling the...