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Housing construction set to rise but target stays short
4+ hour, 53+ min ago (267+ words) AUSTRALIA is expected to build more homes over the next two years, but the nation remains on track to fall 186,000 properties short of its national housing target, according to new industry forecasts. The Housing Industry Association is forecasting the number…...
Attention focused on Reserve Bank officials
9+ hour, 4+ min ago (307+ words) Two significant RBA speeches 'expected to echo recent comments from bank officials reiterating that inflation is too high'. COMMENTS by senior Reserve Bank of Australia officials will be closely monitored as anticipation builds towards another interest rate hike later this…...
RBA warning as 76pc market surge flags fifth rate hike
8+ hour, 17+ min ago (794+ words) Updated 14 Sep 2026, 11:33am First published 14 Sep 2026, 10:56am RBA Governor Michele Bullock is between a rock and a hard place with rates, inflation, jobs and the economy. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short Aussies are being warned to brace for a brutal double rate hike…...
Top 40 datasets showing quality of life in Australia steadily rising
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1009+ words) While newsrooms provoke fear and anxiety about concocted “crises”, life is better than ever, as Alan Austin reports. THE SHONKS AND LIARS in the mainstream newsrooms want Australians to believe the economy is struggling – the opposite of the truth. They…...
CBA ramps up pressure on regulator over Macquarie capital settings
10+ hour, 53+ min ago (95+ words) AFR Commonwealth Bank is ratcheting up the pressure on financial regulators to rein in Macquarie’s use of a corporate structure it alleges provides an unfair competitive advantage, after commissioning economic analysis to show how the arrangement supports Macquarie’s rapid growth…...
What Low Interest Rates Hath Wrought
9+ hour, 8+ min ago (896+ words) Or so the theory goes. Yet over the past 25 years, non-residential investment has shown little correlation with interest rates. The Fed can set short-term rates, but investment cycles are driven primarily by other, more amorphous factors: animal spirits, technology, trade…...
Chance of rates rise heightens as inflation re-emerges – Daily Business
14+ hour, 54+ min ago (453+ words) A move on interest rates had been all but ruled out until the US and Iran resumed hostilities and forced the price of oil higher. The market is now pricing in a 60% chance of a September rate hike from the…...
RBA board ‘split’ on rate decisions at one in three meetings
10+ hour, 43+ min ago (85+ words) AFR Recently departed Reserve Bank board member Ian Harper has revealed that nearly one-third of monetary policy decisions over the past decade were split votes, challenging long-held assumptions of central bank unanimity. Harper said there was “very vigorous” debate among…...
Seven steps can help Australia boom again. But we must choose growth
10+ hour, 47+ min ago (83+ words) afr.com Consulting giant McKinsey says Australia’s economy can be three times bigger by 2100 with seven smart steps. But to get there, we need to make a deliberate tilt towards growth. The Macquarie Group chief executive, who will retire in…...
Will interest rates jump again?
1+ day, 28+ min ago (33+ words) Yahoo As inflation holds steady and wages stagnate, the Federal Reserve is expected to make a decision in the upcoming week regarding whether it will raise interest rates....