Victoria issued tens of billions in long‑dated bonds during 2020–21 at very low interest rates (i.e., 1.25–1.5%). These bonds begin maturing from 2026 through 2031, forcing the state to refinance at ...

Australian power users received a reprieve earlier this year as the default market offer (DMO), which is the benchmark against which retailers price their plans, was cut by between 1% and 10% from 1 ...

Charts from TME Oil is back in focus What started as a clean technical bounce is now turning into something bigger, with spot pushing higher, vol still lagging, and cross-asset signals beginning to ...

I reported this week that the cost of the Snowy Hydro 2.0 project is estimated to have ballooned from an initial announced ...

In the March quarter, the CPI increased by 1.4%, which was in line with market expectations. Some handy charts from Westpac unpack it for us. Headline inflation, which was 2.1% annually in mid-2025 ...

The Madman is back. And so is the oil price. On deck is “limited strikes”. CENTCOM reportedly preparing for “short wave of ...

In a deeply disturbing development, Australia’s foreign minister Penny Wong has turned to China for fuel. Chinese state-owned oil companies have begun engaging directly with Australian businesses on ...

Cotality’s daily dwelling values index for April shows that home values across the five major capital city markets rose by ...

When the final sunrise dawned on the last day of the second millennium, Australia was riding high, living standards were rising strongly, mortgage rates had been cut by almost two-thirds from their ...

The interest rate futures market has priced an official cash rate of 4.75% by the end of 2026. This implies that the Reserve ...

The Wall Street Journal reports that we should prepare for a long blockade. President Trump has instructed aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran, U.S. officials said, targeting the ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released CPI inflation data for March, showing a headline CPI inflation rate of 4.6% for the year, below economists’ expectations of a 4.8% rise. Even so, ...