Market Overview

Asian share markets are in mixed mood as both the BOJ and RBA meetings put some volatility into local currencies as well as stocks, with dovishness sending them both down against USD. Wall Street is...

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board chose to keep the cash rate at a 12-year high at its March meeting. Key points The RBA board held the cash rate at 4.35% It noted it might be some time...

Wall Street was able to start the new trading week with confidence going into a volatile period as major central banks set their interest rates again, with the RBA the first cab off the rank today....

Asian share markets are putting in fairly strong sessions as the trading week restarts with currency markets still under the weight of a stronger USD in the wake of firmer than expected domestic US...

WA's new Student Assistance Payment aims to ease the burden of school expenses on parents and guardians. Key points The WA Government will provide $103.5 million of support payments to families of...

The Kick Starter offer is an additional 0.50% p.a that is added on to the ongoing variable Savings Accelerator rate for the introductory term, up to balances of $500,000. Key points ING adds new...

Wall Street capped off a volatile week with another poor closing session on Friday night as more domestic US economic data muddied the waters on what direction the Fed will take going into the the...

DXY firmed Friday night:AUD fell:With North Asia:Oil popped, gold dropped:Copper is one man base metals band:The miner retest gathers pace:EM puked:But junk was firm:Yields whoa!A stock correction may...

A new round of nowcasts continue to estimate that US economic activity will downshift in next month’s release of first-quarter GDP data. Today’s revised estimate is based on the median for...

Stocks finished the day lower following a hotter-than-expected PPI report, which sharply increased rates and the dollar, helping widen credit spreads.The 10-year rate rose by ten bps on the day, and...

A firmer than expected PPI inflation print overnight sent Wall Street stumbling again as retail sales also softened greater than expected. This lead to a rise in both the USD and bond yields, muddying...

DXY reversed upwards:AUD did the Costanza:North Asia too:Oil and copper broke out sending an unambiguous no-landing signal: Miners are fooked as iron ore heads for the cost curve:EM fell:Junk did...

Super Tuesday was, if I may, super obvious. Former President Donald Trump clinched nearly every delegate that was up for grabs last week, forcing his Republican challenger, Nikki Haley, out of the...

The mixed news on inflation earlier this week and today didn’t help, but neither did sticky inflation news derail expectations that the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates in June....