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Morrison steps into gaping Rudd breach

July 24, 2025 - 12:30 -- Admin

Thank god for the liar from the Shire. AFR. Two US congressmen leading a committee looking at Chinese expansion in the Indo-Pacific have thrown their support behind the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact, just a day before a hearing in which former prime minister Scott Morrison will testify. “AUKUS has received strong bipartisan support from Congress

MB Fund Podcast: Income Investors: Last Chance To Lock In Higher Interest Rates?

July 24, 2025 - 12:05 -- Admin

Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, explores where income investors should look as Australian interest rates appear set to fall. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos. Damien Klassen is Chief Investment Officer at the Macrobusiness Fund, which is powered by Nucleus

MB Fund Podcast: Income Investors: Last Chance To Lock In Higher Interest Rates?

July 24, 2025 - 12:05 -- Admin

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer Damien Klassen explored where income investors should look as Australian interest rates appear set to fall. View the presentation slides Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos. Damien Klassen is Chief Investment Officer at the Macrobusiness Fund, which is

We’re all public servants now

July 24, 2025 - 11:30 -- Admin

The Australian Financial Review’s John Kehoe has published an extraordinary report, based on analysis from the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), showing that spending by federal and state governments on initiatives such as the NDIS, aged care, and child care has reached its highest level since World War II. As a result, more than half

Global steel output smashed

July 24, 2025 - 10:30 -- Admin

Iron ore is always crazy, but it has been outdoing itself in recent weeks. Is that the top? In the short term, we’re still waiting for new yawnulus so maybe, maybe not. It is at the level that will drag in Indian exports, so in the slightly less than short term, yes. Chinese steel output

Trump burns allies on trade

July 24, 2025 - 10:00 -- Admin

Japan has been a key security ally of the United States for seven decades and a vital partner in US efforts to counter an increasingly assertive China. Still, the Trump administration has ignored this historical relationship and extracted its ‘pound of flesh’ from Japan on trade, as reported by the Australian Financial Review’s Jessica Sier.

Australians gear up into property

July 24, 2025 - 09:30 -- Admin

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has delivered two 25 bp reductions in the official cash rate. As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, the rate cuts have resulted in a cumulative decline of 34 bps in the weighted-average interest rate on all existing housing loans in Australia since the peak in January 2025.

Macro Morning

July 24, 2025 - 09:00 -- Admin

Everything is awesome for stock markets as Wall Street pushed through more record highs as earnings surprised to the upside for everyone, except Tesla! The Japan-US trade deal buoyed spirits even if the details actually outweigh the headline 15% tariff rate, but its making the Trumpists happy as they pivot towards similar bullying against the

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