The Market on the return of bad. Pausing SPX reversed right on the huge 6k resistance. First bigger support at 5800. Note the slightly negative RSI divergence. Source: LSEG Workspace Risk love Global Equity Risk-Love jumps to the neutral zone from the Panic levels witnessed in April. BofA writes: “Washed-out sentiment, followed by marked improvement
Via S&P. A Trump dump we might call it. Nothing too serious yet, but it’s hardly an economy running on all cylinders.
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Here is the PC’s recipe to lift Aussie living standards. There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, on that list to move the needle on productivity. It is all microeconomic waffle that is already underway or useless. Here’s what you do instead. Slash immigration to zero to force up wages, investment, and debottleneck infrastructure plus
The financial destruction of the State of Victoria over the past decade is astonishing. In the Labor government’s first state budget in 2015, Victoria’s net debt was only $22.3 billion. It has since climbed to $155.5 billion and is projected over the budget forward estimates to hit $194 billion by 2028-29. Victorian net debt per
The federal government recently used its submission to the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) annual wage review to call for an “economically sustainable” increase in the minimum wage. FWC president Justice Adam Hatcher has asked the Treasury whether wage growth forecasts of 3.1% to 3.25% in 2025-26 would be consistent with inflation staying within the Reserve
DXY no bueno. AUD bueno. Lead boots going nowhere. Gold bueno. Metals no bueno. Miners no bueno. EM no bueno. Junk no bueno. Yields very no bueno. Stocks no bueno. Here’s the issue. The Trump administration has no credibility with markets after the tariff debacle. Now it is going to unleash its tax cut bill
I have often argued that the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) reported $51 billion of education exports is exaggerated and grossly overstates the benefits of international students to the Australian economy. The ABS calculates this remarkable export figure using “an average spend estimate from Tourism Research Australia … supplemented by the addition of total expenditure
Its all about bonds overnight with the Japanese selloff extending to US sovereign debt as the latest Trump “Tax” Deal (aka blowing out the deficit forever) and a weak 20 year auction saw yields rise to new heights across the curve. This led to a selloff on Wall Street and is ringing alarm bells across
RBA Governor Michele Bullock’s media appearance this week was viewed as a victory lap in the fight against inflation. Bullock admitted that the RBA board had considered cutting the official cash rate by 0.5% at its Tuesday meeting, but “it wasn’t the strongest argument in the room”. She also suggested that the RBA was less worried