Risk markets continue to price in some stability returning to US governance – ha! – but then Wall Street stumbled towards the close, unable to build on its big rebound at the start of the week. The USD was relatively stable against the majors although Euro was able to temporarily push above the 1.16 handle,
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The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) latest Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP) revised its medium-term unemployment rate forecast to 4.4%, up from 4.3%. As illustrated below by Alex Joiner from IFM Investors, the RBA’s unemployment rate forecast to the end of 2027 is slightly lower than the current unemployment rate of 4.5%: Therefore, the RBA
President Donald Trump has claimed that the US faces a “national security catastrophe” if the tariffs he introduced against most trading partners this year are ruled illegal.
‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg....
Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today
The Great Australian Housing Bubble hit a new milestone in October, reaching an all-time high valuation of $12.0 trillion, according to Cotality. “This unprecedented value is more than double the market’s size a decade ago, with the majority of the growth occurring over the past five years”, Cotality Economist Kaytlin Ezzy said. “Interestingly, the composition
To Bill Gates, overthrowing the power of the ultra-wealthy seems to be – literally – unthinkable.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th November 2025
Prosper Australia today welcomed the inclusion of a stamp duty to land tax transition in Infrastructure Victoria’s new strategy but criticised the absence of value capture as a sustainable and equitable funding mechanism. “We applaud Infrastructure Victoria’s endorsement of a broad-based annual land tax. This reform recognises that shifting the tax base from transactions to […]
Not quite a green a day as expected here in Asia with only some markets moving higher in the wake of the news that the Republican shutdown of the US government may finally be coming to an end. While gold continued to push higher, other undollars like the Kiwi and Australian dollar have steadied with
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