The unemployment rate rose during December to 5.4% according to figures released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, but don�…
The unemployment rate rose during December to 5.4% according to figures released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, but don�…
There was another disappointingly small rise in consumer sentiment in January as still cautious consumers shifting their preferences from bu…
Speculation has been rising in the housing industry since the RBA made its last 0.25-percentage-point cut to the cash rate, bringing the off…
ANZ is forecasting the Reserve Bank to cut the cash rate by a further 100 basis points over the course of 2013 to a rate of just 2%. This…
Business confidence has plummeted to its worst level since just after the global financial crisis, as SMEs continue to suffer under poor eco…
It wasn’t the news we were expecting to hear. The unemployment rate actually dropped yesterday, falling from 5.3% to 5.2% despite, or pe…
Businesses will end the year on a reasonably positive note, according to Dun & Bradstreet’s latest National Business Expectations Surv…
Small business general trading conditions continued to deteriorate across the board in the September quarter, according to the Australian Ch…
For some time we have argued that the housing market was largely balanced, rather than under-supplied as many economists agreed. Our key poi…
Another Reserve Bank decision on interest rates, and another elongated post mortem about whether the Board members did the ‘right’ or ‘wrong…
The Reserve Bank may have kept interest rates on hold at 3.25% yesterday, but economists are still expecting the central bank to adjust the …
The Reserve Bank has confounded expectations by leaving the cash rate unchanged at 3.25%, despite widespread predictions of a 25 basis point…
