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An even better return to risk here in Asia today with most stock markets lifting, while the USD remained quite strong against the major currencies, the Kiwi and ...

By Leith van Onselen. Professor Peter McDonald's immigration propaganda swept yesterday's COAG meeting on managing Australia's population growth.

Australia and the United States have much in common: liberal, democratic institutions; technologically advanced, largely open economies; growing populations; ...

We have delayed our expectation for the first RBA increase in the cash rate to the second half of 2020. While output growth has been largely as expected over ...

Westpac consumer sentiment holds on: • The Westpac Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment rose 0.1% to 104.4 in December from 104.3 in ...

Via Domain: …In a speech to be delivered ahead of ALP national conference this weekend, Mr O'Conner [Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace ...

Jeez John Kehoe, give it a rest, mate: Bill Shorten government would face a revenue shortfall of up to $19 billion over the four-year budget period if a hostile ...

By Leith van Onselen. The Master Rent-Seekers Builders Association (MBA) is in full panic mode after a few builder collapses and has demanded governments ...

Via The Australian: Manufacturers and heavy industry may be forced to shift operations overseas or shut down as energy prices soar three times higher than in ...

This is pathetic from The Guardian Australia today: More needs to be done to tackle employers outsourcing and subcontracting work to drive down wages, ...

President Donald Trump said he would intervene in the case of Huawei Technologies Co. Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou if it would help win a trade deal ...

DXY was strong last night as EUR weakened and CNY held on. That chart points the USD higher: The Australian dollar rebounded against developed markets:.

By Leith van Onselen. ABC 7.30 Report last night aired the second of a three part special on Australia's budding housing bust, which is well worth watching.

By Leith van Onselen. Yesterday, Infrastructure Australia released a new report, entitled Planning Liveable Cities, which lambasted our governments' intractable ...

By Leith van Onselen. Let's recall the damning indictment of Australia's defacto low-skilled immigration system in the book entitled The Wages Crisis in Australia, ...

This morning I spoke to Radio 2GB's Luke Grant on Australia's per capita economy and immigration's impact, tearing apart the Property Council's latest dodgy ...

The AUD is holding up this morning despite the NAB survey swoon: Bonds are consolidating after the big bid. More buying to come: ...

Via The Australian: Fair Work inspectors are conducting surprise visits at dozens of restaurants and cafes in popular Melbourne city dining strips today following ...

DXY rebounded last night. CNY and EUR were weak: AUD lifted a little versus DMs: CFTC was out late and showed another small draw in shorts to -50.8k:.

It is a laugh a minute now for the politico-housing complex. First up the RBA, which “economists” say was actually bullish last week: Economists believe the ...

Mirabile dictu, Crikey's Bernard Keane has finally discovered the real problem: …while much of the political and media class were obsessing about some ...

By Leith van Onselen. ABC 7.30 Report last night aired the first of a three part special on Australia's budding housing bust, which is well worth watching.

Yes, you read that right, from The Australian: British billionaire industrialist Sanjeev Gupta, backed by heavyweight Chinese investors, plans to build one of the ...

Via The Australian: The Morrison government is expected to formally recognise Jerusalem as Israel's legitimate capital following a cabinet meeting today, but ...

Via the AFR comes Australia's BCA head and chief energy wrecker, Grant King: “In the last four terms of parliament, two under Labor and two under Coalition ...

By Leith van Onselen. The Property Council has commissioned modelling which shows that lowering immigration into NSW would boost real wages. From The ...

Via Jonathon Shapiro at the AFR late yesterday: Housing bears are famous for hearing what they want to hear. And last week, Reserve Bank assistant governor ...

From the OECD today: The latest OECD Economic Survey of Australia, to be released on Monday 10 December, assesses the continuing robust growth of the ...

University? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment. It's a test for 15 year olds. Edit: post originally referred to ...

It's the Scummo wipe out now, via Newspoll: The results of the final Newspoll of the year show the Coalition's primary vote at 35 per cent, Labor's at 41 per cent ...

The Australian dollar has gapped lower this morning on lousy Chinese data: XJO is down heavily and looks likely to close at new two year lows: ...

By Leith van Onselen. I noted last week how the Scanlon Foundation's mouthpiece, professor Andrew Markus, rubbished most recent opinion polling, from a ...

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From Guy Debelle, deputy governor of the RBA: It is now just over 10 years since the date that people most associate with the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), ...

By Leith van Onselen. The great Australian immigration rort has hit a whole new level of ridiculousness today, with Chinese tourists and international students ...

I still have a third hypothetical bet open with Bill Evans that the next move in rates is down (having won the first two, not that he knows about it). I reckon the RBA ...

Via the AFR: As Sydney and Melbourne house prices continue to fall, Mr Shorten signalled that an originally planned July 1, 2019 start date could be deferred ...

DXY was slammed then bud last night. EUR is stable. CNY on a tear: AUD flamed out across DMs: EMs were worse: Gold is breaking out as Fed easing looms: ...

Via Deutsche's new banking analyst Matthew Wilson: At best, mortgage growth will continue to slow as deleveraging works its way through the economy ...

There's a locust plague at News: Buyer's agent Nick Viner believes now is the time to buy in Sydney and Melbourne, with many discounted premium properties ...

Canada has arrested Huawei's global chief financial officer in Vancouver, where she is facing extradition to the United States on suspicion she violated US ...

By Leith van Onselen. Like bees to honey, the Pied Pipers of low cost human imports – Australia's coalition of business lobbies – have jointly rejected calls to cut ...

By Leith van Onselen. Over the past few years, I have called for an overhaul of Australia's dietary guidelines, including Australia's Health Star Rating System, ...

So says the ABC: Renewable generation installation has accelerated to such an extent it is on track to provide almost 80 per cent of the electricity market by ...

By Leith van Onselen. With most recent opinion polls showing the majority of Australians want immigration to be lowered, including: Australian Population ...

Housing Finance. Australian house prices v the rest. Australian house prices to income v the rest. Sydney & Melbourne Auction Clearances. Employing Sectors.

At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 1.50 per cent. The global economic expansion is continuing and unemployment ...

…last week former Treasury boss, now National Australia Bank chairman, Ken Henry delivered a pretentious and prolix lecture, pointing the finger for corporate ...

How? How did they do it? From the EIA: EIA expects total U.S. coal consumption in 2018 to fall to 691 million short tons (MMst), a 4% decline from 2017 and the ...

Paging bjw678, stat!. Log in to Reply. Chris December 7, 2018 at 1:11 pm. What happened to all those crypto fanboys that where on here 12 months ago??

Now is not the time to be flipping,” director at Ray White Surry Hills Ercan Ersan said. “Anyone who bought in that period [between 2016 and 2017] and is now ...

I like John Kehoe. He has talent. But he should be careful of what company he keeps: One quarter of soft economic activity does not make a trend, so chatter ...

Via Bill Evans at Westpac: The minutes of the November monetary policy meeting of the Reserve Bank Board confirm the confident approach we have seen in ...

Note – Chant West asked us to clarify the fund performance data below. In our original post it was unclear as to the source of the inception data. Chant West is ...

Here is what Crikey's Bernard Keane wrote last week on immigration: The same policy breakdown that has occurred in other areas of neoliberal policymaking is ...

By Leith van Onselen. Twenty years ago, in 1998, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) forecast that Australia's population would hit between 23.5 and 26.4 ...

[Malcolm Turnbull] urged his Liberal colleagues to revive the Neg – abandoned as a casualty of the August leadership fight – arguing it was a “vital piece of ...

By Chris Becker. A poor start to the trading week for overnight markets with US stocks selling off sharply on the back of tech giant Apple and confounded by ...

By Ross Elliott, cross-posted from The Suburban Alliance: In amongst changing Prime Ministers (again) or our ongoing obsession with all things Trump, there ...

By Leith van Onselen. Appearing before the banking royal commission in its seventh and final round of hearings, ANZ CEO, Shayne Elliott, admitted to being a ...

By Leith van Onselen. While almost all recent opinion polls show the majority of Australians want immigration to be lowered, including: Australian Population ...

Golden boy of the Australian left, David Marr, yesterday pounced upon a new Scanlon Foundation survey at The Guardian: Australia has not lost faith in ...

Via the AIG: Manufacturing sectors: Five of the eight sectors in the Australian PMI® expanded in November and three were broadly stable (trend). Growth was ...

From Bloxo today: A cooling was expected, but the price falls have been larger than previously forecast. The cooling is not unlike developments elsewhere, such ...

Via Domain: When NSW Opposition leader Luke Foley spectacularly resigned from Parliament amid a sexual harassment allegation, Labor strategists were ...

Via Westpac: Details. Company profits, +1.9% vs forecast market 2.8% & Westpac 1.3%. Company profits adjusted: 1.2%, in line with Westpac forecast 1.3%.

APRA's deputy chair John Lonsdale made the comments at FINSIA 'The Regulators' event saying that Australia had endured 27 years of continuous expansion ...

By Leith van Onselen. Last week, the Australian Population Research Institute (APRI) released a startling new report arguing that Australian universities' heavy ...

From S&P: – Tightened access to credit will affect refinancing conditions, but not for all borrowers. Borrowers with modest loan-to-value ratios, higher seasoning, ...

HORROR receival figures into the GrainCorp storage network highlight the depth of the drought in Australia's north-eastern cropping zone. Total new-crop grain ...

DXY is up and almost away. EUR is weak. CNY less so: AUD held on anyway: It was mixed against EM: Gold dropped: Oil held on but if OPEC can't cut then US ...

By Leith van Onselen. Back in September, ACCC chairman Rod Sims warned state governments against accepting unsolicited bids for infrastructure projects:.

By Leith van Onselen. A few months back, the Hodgman Liberal Tasmanian Government rejoiced at the recent acceleration in the state's population growth:.

Most people quite like working at Tidjane Thiam's Credit Suisse. During today's (ongoing) 2018 Credit Suisse investor day presentations, Thiam presented the ...

A new product which provides a blockchain GDPR solution can support the 'right to be forgotten' and data redaction.

Brexit, financial market volatility and house price growth are among the most significant risks facing the Irish economy, a new analysis by the Central Bank has ...

Adam Ozimek is a senior economist at Moody's Analytics where he covers U.S. labor markets and demographics while actively blogging and tweeting about a ...

Goldman Sachs explains why it may be the right time for investors to dip their toes back into a previously controversial and derided trade.

With the impending State election results, macro-economic data and the ongoing geo-political tension after the arrest of Huawei executive, the Indian equity ...

The FINANCIAL -- Economic growth in Vietnam has proven resilient despite weakening external conditions, driven mainly by strong domestic demand and a ...

Dixons Carphone slumped to a loss of £440m in the first half of its financial year, with the struggling electronics retailer announcing more than £200m of cost ...

The coming week will be guided by macro data as well as state election results. Apart from that movement of crude oil price, rupee FIIs flows as well as trade ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Everyone knows that consumer behavior is a vital factor in bakery sales. However, certain consumer groups — namely families and ...

Plans to upgrade major parts of the London Underground will be put on hold after a decline in passenger numbers, government cuts and delays to the opening ...

HANOI: In the race to lure companies looking for alternative sites amid the U.S.-China trade war, Vietnam wields a slew of advantages over its rivals.

Fitch Ratings Wednesday said the resignation of Urjit Patel as Reserve Bank Governor highlights the risks to RBI's policy priorities and increased government ...

U.S. financial conditions have tightened significantly since risk assets began to falter in the summer. Why does this matter for investors? Financial.

X-Chem and Almirall to collaborate on the discovery of lead compounds for dermatology targets using X-Chem's DNA-encoded libraries.

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Head of Pakistan Sajjeed Aslam has called for chalking out a long-term strategy to steer the country out.

As 2018 draws to a close, Satveer Singh Thakral is busy writing a new chapter for SGAN, an early stage venture fund he started with his father in April 2014.

Business Insider got an exclusive first look at BlackRock's 2019 market outlook, which consists of three major themes the firm sees dictating action.

MUMBAI: Indian markets recouped sharp early losses by mid-morning Tuesday as election results in three states were not as poor for the ruling party as some ...

Financial sector boosts Honduras economy Economic activity in Honduras in September expanded with a strong showing in the financial sector, with the .

As IBM moves forward with its $34 billion deal for Red Hat, its executives continue to defend the buy.

CHICAGO, Dec. 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Low unemployment rates and continued positive growth in both GDP and real disposable income are among ...

Long-term capital brought by investors into the Philippines continued to grow at a healthy clip in the first nine months of the year, thanks to the sustained ...

Kate Moore, the chief equity strategist at the BlackRock Investment Institute, spoke with Business Insider to give her outlook for 2019.

Much has been made of the support given to demonetisation by Krishnamurthy Subramanian, the government's new Chief Economic Advisor. To be sure, he did ...

China's auto sales continued their long downward trend last month as demand weakened and macro-econo.

VIT gives students the core subjects and electives. VITBS offers a lot of core subjects which are mandatory like the management and organisational behaviour, ...