It was all about tariffs again today in the minds of risk markets but Asian shares have all broadly advanced except the ASX200 which put in a scratch session. More rate cut speculation builds as the US Federal Reserve has to weigh up increasing inflation against further jobs losses as the USD continues to
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The latest data from the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) showed that house prices nationally have fallen by 16.4% over 44 months, with all major centres experiencing heavy declines. As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, home prices in real terms have crashed back to 2019 levels. Cotality released its house
Victoria disease is the malady of a permanent Labor government leading to an ever-rising population, along with state dependency and falling living standards. It is a national pandemic, but patient zero is Victoria, and she is now dying from a combination of crush loading, energy failure, excess debt, and inflated expectations. One area where Victoria
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One of Australia’s most significant educational policy failures was the gradual closure of secondary technical schools between the 1970s and 1990s, driven by the mistaken belief that young people should attend university. The mistakes were then compounded when governments redirected funding for vocational education and training (VET) to universities, alongside redirecting what little VET funding
The ferrous complex is still easing after the recent ill-conceived push. The outlook remains weak. The big event refers to a September 3 Beijing ceremony, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two. Chinese steelmakers, especially those in the northern region, usually constrain production before big events to ensure air quality in
Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, look at a number of concerns that investors have about market concentration. The two big ones: (1) With almost 40% of the US market in the hands of just 10 stocks (2) at the same time the amount of money in passive stocks
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These poor folks at the ABC are a leading indicator. Regional Victorian residents in 10 towns reliant on standalone gas networks are in shock after learning their supply will be cut off by the end of next year. Solstice Energy has announced it will phase out its compressed natural gas (CNG) networks in Robinvale, Swan
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What is the wokester to do when his great enemy, Trump, tries to end wars? Simple! Abandon the suffering to protect his virtue. Wokey is just awful these days. Talking of chaos, there is yet more tariff news (at the time of writing it is top of the ABC, Reuters, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, and
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UN climate chief Simon Stiell jetted into Australia to blame us for the world’s climate woes. Stiell claimed that Australia will let the world “overheat” and stated that fruit will be a “once-a-year treat” if the Albanese government doesn’t lift its clean-energy ambitions. He also warned that unambitious interim targets would destroy Australia’s “high living
The Market Ear on gold. UBS on gold 1. World gold Council’s 2Q data shows a slight slowdown in central bank gold buying, but 43% of reserve managers still plan to increase holdings (vs. 29% in 2024). 2. Investment demand is strong, led by ETFs and bar/coin buying. 3. De-dollarization, sanctions, Fed doubts, and geopolitics
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