New South Wales and the Northern Territory have the strongest economies in Australia, according to the latest instalment in CommSec’s Stat…
New South Wales and the Northern Territory have the strongest economies in Australia, according to the latest instalment in CommSec’s Stat…
The governor of the Reserve Bank, Glenn Stevens, has voiced concerns with Australia’s economy in a speech at the Committee for Economic De…
Retail group Pacific Brands will sell of its Brand Collective division, which owns shoe labels Volley and Grosby and has licences for Hush P…
Conditions in the established housing market remain strong, according to latest meeting minutes from the Reserve Bank of Australia. “While h…
The Reserve Bank has been giving a rolling seminar on why economists don’t get real estate. This has taken the form of speeches by the Guv…
What are we to believe about the state of the mythical national property boom? We were told it was over, based on the figures for May, but…
Consumer confidence took a backwards step in March, dropping 0.7% to 99.5 from 100.2 in February, according to the latest Westpac Melbourne …
The economy is marking time at the moment, all the available evidence is telling us, including some out this morning. First of all, Finan…
A surging Australian dollar to near three-month highs overnight will help to bring a big dose of realism to all this talk of expectations a…
Fast forward a few weeks and the federal election will be over, the result will be known and we’ll be getting on with our lives. So wh…
This Friday, the housing finance figures for May will be pored over by economists in Federal Treasury, and especially the Reserve Bank, for …
House and unit prices have remained “relatively flat over recent months” though “still higher than the previous year”, the minutes of the Ju…
