The Reserve Bank has decided to maintain the official interest rate at 3%, with Governor Glenn Stevens saying the RBA will monitor monetary …
The Reserve Bank has decided to maintain the official interest rate at 3%, with Governor Glenn Stevens saying the RBA will monitor monetary …
Today’s briefing of Reserve Bank directors by the staff should be fairly comfortable, with no shocks, as it was last month. The meeting will…
Any hopes of avoiding rising unemployment over the year ahead have been dashed, with the ANZ Job Advertisements Series showing job ads fell …
The Melbourne property market has now recorded eight consecutive weeks of auction clearance rates above 80%. So what’s behind the boom? Acco…
Australian SMEs are hanging in there, according to the latest insolvency data. Figures from the Australian Securities and Investment Commiss…
Over the weekend I attended more than my normal share of functions and everywhere I went people came up to me asking “are we all right?” or …
If you are a typical investor, it’s unlikely that you bothered to celebrate the end of the 2008-09 financial year. Let’s face it – it was a …
Shares have just wrapped up two consecutive years of big losses. After such a slump the list of worries is long and the outlook is viewed wi…
The Australian share market has opened lower today after a horror night on Wall Street, where shares dropped sharply after news the unemploy…
A survey of more than 1000 small and medium business owners has shown that they expect to keep growing despite the downturn, with most targe…
This morning’s US jobs report is a green shoots herbicide: after four months of slowing job losses, payrolls have slumped by 467,000 and une…
The Australian share market has opened higher today, led by positive results in the US and good results for mining shares. The benchmark…
