Market Overview

Rarely in the history of US economic analysis have recession forecasts been plentiful and widely embraced. All the more extraordinary is the ongoing resilience of the economy that defies the gloomy...

The Fed seriously erred in 2021, focusing too much on supply and not enough on demand. The Fed can slow velocity but requires job losses and/or eroding consumer confidence. Forecasting the money...

A sea of red across Asia today following the poor session overnight on Wall Street as US debt ceiling negotiations fail to find a way forward. This is causing increased hesitation around risk markets...

A plan to pay down $31.5 billion worth of Covid related borrowing was the headline from Tuesday's budget, the ninth delivered by Treasurer Tim Pallas. Key points The Victorian Government has...

The new version of the CommBank app available in June is said to deliver individually tailored content and new dynamic navigation to make it simpler, better and easier for its 7.7 million Australian...

Traditionally, banks subject borrowers to stress tests to ensure they can comfortably afford mortgage repayments if interest rates were to increase by three percentage points above the applied rate. ...

More failed US debt ceiling negotiations pushed risk markets into selling territory overnight on both sides of the Atlantic as the wall of worry was too high to climb. Currency markets fled to the...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday spoke the words that investors have longed to hear: the rate-hiking cycle is ending. Except that maybe it isn’t.Speaking at a conference last...

According to PropTrack, just 16.2% of the rental properties listed across Australia were advertised at $400 or less, compared to 30.2% in April 2022. Key points The percentage of cheap rental...

Qantas Airways Ltd (ASX:QAN), Australia's leading airline, is on track to surpass its previous record profit of A$1.5 billion by a staggering $1 billion this year. The company anticipates an...

Good afternoon, traders; welcome to our market week preview, where we take a look at the economic data, market news, and headlines likely to have the biggest impact on the price of gold this week and...

U.S. shares led rallies in equities markets around the world in the trading week through Friday, May 19, based on a set of ETFs. The rest of the major asset classes lost ground.Vanguard Total Stock...

Global marketsConcerns over US debt ceiling negotiations were the primary factor affecting global markets over the past week, with hopes that a deal is close generally helping to support stock prices....

DXY took a breather Friday night:AUD held on: Commodities too:And miners (NYSE:RIO):EM stocks (NYSE:EEM) are dead:EM junk (NYSE:HYG) has declared an end to the Chinese rebound:The Treasury curve is...