Australian wealth levels have rebounded quickly from the Global Financial Crisis and will give the RBA confidence to act as it sees necessary on interest rates.
There are three scenarios which could now play out in the eurozone – none of them good, but rather each bad to a greater degree.
Copper has surprised to the downside and experts are now asking: when will copper prices stop falling?
Oil prices have fallen along with other commodities as the EU’s economic woes continue, but a dislocation in the US market is distorting fundamentals.
The TechWizard reports the ASX200 is now testing technical support at 4800-4820.
A glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities, with BMO revising its commodity price forecasts and Citi seeing only limited impact from any review of the Oz tax system.
A snapshot of economist responses to today’s CPI. The annual headline CPI rose from 2.1% to 2.9% in March but the underlying rate dropped from 3.3% to a 30-month low of 3.0%. Where does that leave the RBA?
Forget Europe for a moment. The Chinese stock market’s 11% fall this year is the world’s worst. Should Australian investors start panicking?
This column argues that Chinese policy has a relatively small impact on developed economies’ macroeconomic circumstances, estimating major reduction in Chinese saving would improve US employment by less than 0.25%.
Gold went up when nearly everything else went down, leaving a positive impression on technical analysts at Barclays Capital.
