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DXY is falling again. AUD launched. CNY is supportive. Japan is better but no cigar. Gold is good. AI metals, or should we call them Fed metals, jumped. The chosen one is back. EM lagging. Junk is green. Yields are green. Stocks are green. With the FOMC and RBA charging in apparently different directions, if

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Prosper Australia’s latest Speculative Vacancies data update reveals a 16% rise – to 31,890 – in totally empty homes in Melbourne over the past year. This rise in empty dwellings has undermined the benefit from new housing supply coming online. Including a further 69,055 underused homes, the total climbs to 100,945. This figure speaks to […]

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This week, Cotality released its housing affordability report for the September quarter of 2025, which reported abysmal affordability across the nation for both purchases and rent. In response, AMP chief economist Shane Oliver produced a report explaining how Australia’s mass immigration policy has eroded housing affordability by creating a structural imbalance between supply and demand.

A major long term deal between a big battery owner and a new player in the Australian market is being hailed as a challenge to the dominance of legacy retailers.

Over three and a half years into the conflict, US president Donald Trump is trying to sell the world on a grand bargain for Ukraine – a peace plan, based on discussions with all parties and originally laid out in 28 points. After a tense weekend of talks in Geneva, that plan has been cut down and rebranded as an “updated and refined peace framework,” but the core reality hasn’t changed: Washington, key EU capitals, Kiev and Moscow are all reading from different scripts.

Transcript of Steve Witkoff's conversation with Yuri Ushakov on October 14

[phone rings]

Steve Witkoff: Hi Yuri.

Yuri Ushakov: Yeah Steve hi, how are you?

SW: Good Yuri. How you doing?

YU: I am ok. Congratulations my friend.

SW: Thank you.

YU: You made a great job. Just a great job. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you.

Man, you can never say never in markets. From FT Alphaville. Remember about a month ago, when gold hit an all-time high, lots of commentators got on their hobby horses to huff about currency debasement? Then another set of commentators called nonsense on that idea, saying gold demand was probably just dollar avoidance plus momentum?

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Each year, the Auditor‑General releases a report assessing Victoria’s consolidated financial statements. The Victorian Auditor‑General’s Report on the Annual Financial Report of the State of Victoria 2024–25 has been released amid the state facing record debt levels, the threat of further credit rating downgrades, ongoing industrial disputes (e.g., teachers and health workers), and scrutiny over

Planning referee approves quarry for one of state's biggest wind projects, and says fears about traffic, dust and noise can all be handled by consent conditions.

Emissions reduction targets are often cast as incompatible with energy affordability, the latest example being the Liberal Party dumping its net zero target. IEEFA has found that this is not the case.  

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has debuted its highly anticipated “complete” monthly consumer price index. This new monthly CPI indicator is a major upgrade—covering nearly the entire consumption basket, using richer data sources, and giving policymakers and the public a real-time view of inflation rather than waiting for quarterly updates. The results for October

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