The Market Ear on the bear. Shake out, or? A perfect storm may be brewing: the S&P’s death cross reappears just as investor confidence hits new lows and equity outflows surge. With tech allocations plunging and volatility well bid, the big question is — is this a shakeout or the start of a larger unwind?
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There is a global gas glut looming over the next five years as US and Qatari volumes surge into seaborne markets. However, those who propose importing this gas into Australia as the solution to our energy transition woes are barking up the wrong tree. Current future pricing for JKM gas in Asia for mid-winter 2028
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Former RBA man Peter Tulip does a good job of destroying the current array of house price appreciation policies offered in the election. He concludes at the AFR. Immigration policy is not usually considered as “housing policy”, but it actually has larger effects on affordability than most of the measures discussed above. The Coalition is
Developer Nigel Satterley has called for more skilled migration to help ‘solve’ the housing shortage. Nigel Satterley, whose Satterley Property Group is the nation’s largest privately owned residential land developer, claimed that Australia had suffered an annual shortfall of 40,000 homes for over a decade. He claimed that without immigration changes to bring in more
Beijing, we have a problem. The property recovery that never was is now in hard reverse post-tariffs. Leading indicators are in free fall verus previous saves in the primary market. It is the reverse in the secondary market as property dumping is the new black. Sales in primary markets are crashing. Inventory is yet to
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Risk sentiment is flat lining again as stock market volatility moves lower but all eyes still remain on US Treasuries and the USD itself with Swiss Franc now taking the lead while Euro took a slight back seat on poor sentiment readings in Germany. The impact on global trade continues to be felt with leading
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The latest pricing from the interest rate futures market has the official cash rate falling to 2.9% by year’s end, suggesting another five 0.25% rate cuts this calendar year. The minutes from the latest Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board meeting cautioned that Australia’s $11.3 trillion housing market could be at risk if a series
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Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has branded incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz a Nazi after he allegedly suggested that Kiev should destroy the Crimean Bridge.
Vladimir Zelensky’s office announced on Tuesday that it has fired the head of Ukraine’s Sumy Regional Military Administration, Vladimir Artyukh. The move follows accusations that Artyukh organized a military awards ceremony that was targeted in a Russian missile strike.
