Renew Economy
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 21:59
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 16:34
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Old Queenscliff Pier, Victoria AUD/USD EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD Gold WTI Brent Australia 200 US S&P 500 UK 100 Japan 225 Vids The post Macro Afternoon: 7 October 2025 appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 15:46
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Britain is “furious” over its failure to bring about the “strategic defeat” of Russia and is preparing a new “provocation” in response to battlefield gains in the Ukraine conflict, Moscow's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has warned. |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 15:11
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Renew Economy
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 15:07
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 15:04
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Renew Economy
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 14:15
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 14:00
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The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has slashed the official cash rate by 2.50% from its July 2024 top of 5.50%: As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, the sharp cut in the cash rate has reduced mortgage rates for new loans back to around pre-pandemic levels: Such a large decline in mortgage The post New Zealand’s house price crash continues appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 13:00
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When the Crime Statistics Agency recently released Victoria’s crime statistics for 2024-25, it revealed that the state saw a record high number of criminal incidents, with over 483,000 incidents over the course of the financial year. But going through the numbers, one stat really jumped out at readers: Victoria Police reported that just 5,400 repeat The post Victoria’s worst criminals reoffend every 2.7 minutes appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 12:10
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After a months-long rebound, Westpac’s monthly consumer sentiment index crashed back to a 6-month low in September as hopes of deep interest rate cuts faded. Westpac’s Head of Australian Macro-Forecasting, Matthew Hassan, explains the results below. Key Points: Westpac Consumer Sentiment Index declines 3.5% to 92.1 in October. Optimism about outlook for family finances fades. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 12:00
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Energy is the bedrock of a modern economy. Without affordable and reliable energy, an economy will experience cost inflation across the supply chain. The energy-intensive manufacturing sector will also shrink as it can no longer break a profit and compete against cheaper imports. Australia’s economy has experienced soaring energy costs—both electricity and gas prices—which are |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 11:30
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I consider the video-sharing platform YouTube to be one of the most useful and powerful educational tools available. Every day, I utilise YouTube to learn about topics or to troubleshoot problems. My teenage daughter regularly uses YouTube ‘How-to’ videos to learn about arts and crafts, solve math problems, fix computer issues, learn about history, do video The post YouTube fights back against Aussie eKaren appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 11:30
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 11:03
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Your Democracy
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 11:03
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The Israeli authorities have confirmed deporting activist Greta Thunberg. She and hundreds of others were detained last week after attempting to reach Gaza aboard an aid flotilla. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 11:00
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Last week, shadow home affairs minister Andrew Hastie resigned from the Coalition’s frontbench following frustration that he would have no input into the party’s immigration policy. Hastie argues that “uncontrolled migration” has been a major contributor to the decline in housing affordability in Australia, alongside infrastructure congestion and other issues. However, shadow housing and productivity |
Your Democracy
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 10:53
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The US President Donald Trump has said he had already made a decision on supplying long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. He however refused to reveal what the exact decision is. “I’ve sort of made a decision on that. I would have to ask the question where are they sending them,” he told journalists at the White House on Monday. “I’m not looking to see escalation,”Trump stressed. |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 10:48
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 10:30
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Looking at any number of indicators of health for households within the Australian economy, the news is hardly stellar. Real wages are at levels last seen in late 2011 and if the RBA’s projected rate of growth out into the future is realised, the pre-Covid peak will be reached in the mid-2030s. Meanwhile, growth in The post Australia’s broken economy leaves us divided appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 10:00
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I wrote last week about how the taxation of tobacco is one of Australia’s biggest policy failures. The federal government has repeatedly raised tobacco taxes to discourage smoking. Yet, the Australian Medical Association has warned that the availability of cheaper, illegal tobacco has led to a sharp rise in smoking rates, alongside booming organised crime The post Australia’s sin taxes have gone too far appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 09:54
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 09:00
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From the Market Ear: Kamikaze The Japanese 30 year has risen sharply over the past few years. Is this a similar break out move like we saw earlier this year? Gold loves it Gold loves rising Japanese 30 year yields… The streak Gold prices have now posted their 8th consecutive quarterly gain, the third-longest streak The post Gold Roars, Kamikaze Yields, and the SOX Melt Up appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 08:00
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It’s rare that any more than a month or two goes by without Prime Minister Anthony Albanese mentioning that he grew up in public housing. Every now and then it’s casually trotted out, perhaps as an attempt to connect with everyday voters that many in the ‘Canberra Bubble’ increasingly find themselves detached from. Meanwhile, the The post Albanese’s flagship housing failure appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 00:05
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Last week, the government body Build Skills Australia released a report claiming that there simply aren’t enough tradespeople to meet Labor’s target to build 240,000 homes a year. Build Skills Australia shows that Australia’s rate of construction per new resident has collapsed, despite the volume of homes built over the past 20 years (174,000 dwellings The post Australia has a tradie problem appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Monday, October 6, 2025 - 20:16
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMCuSHGecyA Roger Waters joins the show to talk about Gaza, the UN, free speech & what he wants the president of Colombia to do. Plus, he reacts to the latest crackdowns on speech, the war in Ukraine, & why some musicians are such cowards when it comes to Israel. For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - / patreon-full-140151702 |
Renew Economy
Monday, October 6, 2025 - 19:22
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MacroBusiness
Monday, October 6, 2025 - 16:49
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Point Lonsdale sunrise, Victoria AUD/USD EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD Gold WTI Brent Australia 200 US S&P 500 UK100 Japan 225 The post Macro Afternoon: 6 October 2025 appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Monday, October 6, 2025 - 14:55
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Monday, October 6, 2025 - 14:08
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MacroBusiness
Monday, October 6, 2025 - 14:00
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The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has already delivered 2.5% of interest rate cuts, which has taken the official cash rate to 3.0% from a peak of 5.5%. As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, the Reserve Bank’s monetary easing has lowered new mortgage rates to pre-pandemic levels, whereas weighted-average interest rates on The post Reserve Bank readies deep interest rate cuts appeared first on MacroBusiness. |