Most Asian share markets are mixed despite a solid lead from Wall Street overnight, with local stocks taking back their recent losses despite the constant bullying from the Trump regime’s tariffs on pharmaceuticals. There’s more tariff announcements and letter printing on the way, but of course we still await the TACO trade. Oil markets are
This is why. The Guardian. The West Australian Labor premier, Roger Cook, has encouraged his federal counterparts to consider a gas reserve on the east coast as it mulls a regulatory overhaul to shore up supply and contain prices. Cook said WA’s gas reservation policy, which requires offshore producers set aside 15% of supplies for
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand paused following the RBA this week. The decision was expected. ANZ sees it as temporary. Our view on today’s decision was that the recent soft data justified another 25bp OCR cut, but that lingering concerns about upside inflation risks would on balance see the Committee decide to hold the
Ferrous markets are hoping against hope! Nomura has a great assessment of the Chinese economy. It seems like “déjà vu all over again” for China’s economy. During the past few years, we have observed first halves associated with optimistic expectations for a sustained stock market boom, a decent growth recovery, an end to the property
Since the international borders reopened following the pandemic, a sizable proportion of Australia’s growth has stemmed from two sources: exports and government spending. Given the impact of the war in Ukraine on commodity prices, it’s self-evident that exports would play a major role in the growth of the economy. But there is a surprising factor
Tesla has finally, sort of, launched driverless cars. Waymo is doing 250,000 trips per week. Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen look at the big picture for driverless cars and what they mean for investors. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos.
Recently the topic of the total proportion of the population made up by migrants has been making headlines in the United States, Britain and parts of Europe. This prompted quite the level of conversation on social media, so I thought it would be interesting to see where Australia stands both relative to itself historically and
Goldman with the note. Price data through May provide preliminary evidence on how tariff costs are being divided among foreign exporters, US businesses, and US consumers. Foreign exporters might absorb some of the costs by lowering their export prices to the US, which would show up as lower US import prices. Although aggregate US import
What a goose Albo is. He’s put Rudd in Washington to torpedo ANZUS and then used that as an excuse to cuddle up to Beijing. But the bill is coming due. A Trump administration review of the $368 billion AUKUS pact could see the US demand Australia pay more for submarines, The Sydney Morning Herald
The Market Ear with more. Negative asymmetry for equities near-term Goldman’s macro strategists are not buying the summer melt-up thesis and are sounding more cautious than in a while. “We are tactically neutral in our asset allocation (OW cash, N equities/credit/bonds, UW commodities). We still expect a worsening growth/inflation mix in 2H and elevated risk