Below is CBA economist Lucinda Jerogin’s round-up of this week’s economic and housing data: Key points: The RBA hiked the cash rate 25bps on Tuesday to 4.60%, its highest level in 15 years. The ...

Roy Morgan’s latest mortgage stress survey shows that 32.3% of mortgage households were at risk of mortgage stress in August, with 22.7% extremely at risk: Mortgage stress was tracking at its highest ...

Something is starting to break. And it is Europe. TME has more. The puke SX5E has printed two aggressive bearish candles in a row and is now testing the make-or-break 6200 area in futures. The ...

Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock recently suggested that the unemployment rate may need to rise to 5%, up from 4.6% currently, to ease inflation pressures in Australia. Bullock said that a higher ...

The 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, released in July, revealed that: Oil consumption hit a record high. Natural gas consumption hit a record high. Coal consumption hit a record high. Fossil ...

DXY gapped into the stratosphere overnight. It is goodbye, EUR. AUD kept falling and is approaching critical .69 cents support. Brent roared. Gold held on. Metals are letting go. Another major growth ...

War headlines today. Iran bombs VLCC in Hormuz. On fire. Houthis rain hell on Saudi Arabia. Third US carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt, headed for Iran. Netanyahu/Trump blame Iran for hijack. There has ...

As commentators and banks alike continue to revise housing price forecasts down, Australians are increasingly wondering how much further prices could fall. With the release of the latest revised ...

The latest dwelling completions data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that only 173,400 homes were built ...

The private credit market, which has grown to around $200 billion in assets, has become a key lender to developers as traditional banks pull back from construction lending due to tightening risk ...

Changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax in the federal budget have sharply reduced investor credit growth. The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) credit aggregates data for August, ...