With the election of Zohran Mamdani to the office of Mayor of New York, an event thought practically impossible just a few decades ago has come to pass: the most populous city in the United States and the centre of the financial world has an avowed socialist as its mayor. His victory speech possessed themes
OMG. The economists are panicking. “Interest rate cuts are off the table,” Mr Bloxham said. “The problem is that productivity is so weak that supply is constrained. So as input costs such as labour and energy rise there is no equal increase in output.” UBS economist George Tharenou said the underlying inflation rate would overshoot
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Like other advanced nations, Australia is facing pressures from an ageing population. The federal government has tried to mitigate these ageing pressures by running a high immigration policy to mitigate labour shortages and increase the number of taxpayers. Former senior immigration department bureaucrat Abul Rizvi believes that Australia’s annual net overseas migration will average 300,000
DXY faded Friday night. AUD bounced. CNY too. Oil and gold sideways. AI metals stalled. Big miners trying. EM ouch. Junk OK. Yield eased. Stocks dump and pump. It’s all about the government shutdown now. Scott Bessent, US Treasury Secretary, is on the hustings saying growth might halve in Q4 and prices fall away.
No jobs report for you! So that’s two months of non-existent unemployment data from the US due to the Republicans shutting down their own government so markets are unable to navigate or pivot on the non-farm payroll data and instead wonder at what is going on “under the hood” of the world’s largest economy (for
The Albanese government’s fantastical target of building 1.2 million dwellings over five years, or 240,000 homes a year, is based on delivering another boom in high-rise apartment towers, even greater than the one experienced between 2015 and 2020. To meet the federal government’s lofty housing construction target, Australia would need to build more homes than
The housing market appears to have lost some momentum due to the recent inflation shock and expectations that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will keep interest rates on hold for the foreseeable future. Cotality’s daily dwelling values index continues to show the strongest growth in over two years, measured on a rolling 28-day basis:
Aussie punters are drooling with anticipation of a new housing boom. Victoria disease is preventing madness in the South East, but elsewhere it is all greed. Plenty of room to rise before any nerves kick in. The young and abused have been co-opted. The Oct survey detail points to another factor in the mix
By Harry Ottley, economist at CBA: The RBA left the cash rate on hold at 3.60% as widely expected.The post-meeting communication was not quite as hawkish as we had expected. The data flow was mixed with home price rises accelerating and building approvals improving but household spending looking a touch softer than expected. Offshore, soft