At the end of 2024, CoreLogic (now Cotality) reported that Australia’s housing affordability—both to purchase and rent—was ...

What do you think happens when you try to manage a narcissist with a narcissist? Both pretend the other does not exist. AFR.

Prefabricated housing is often touted as a solution to Australia’s housing affordability crisis. This week, 9 News ran an ...

At the end of 2024, CoreLogic (now Cotality) reported that Australians were paying a record share of their income to rent the ...

Goldman wraps the EOFY bump in retail sales. Nominal retail sales rose 1.2%mom in June, above expectations (GSe:+0.9%mom, BBG: 0.5%mom). The quarterly data were also firmer than expectations, with ...

Tarric Brooker posted the following chart on Twitter (X) showing that the level of real Australian resource exports per capita has risen from around $3,500 per year in 1988 to just under $15,000 per ...

The perfect bubble is here, says the Market Ear. With systematics now fully engaged, it is hard to argue with. 100% too perfect Ring the bell. This is as good as it gets. Years ago we had the ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released dwelling approvals data for June, which posted another solid rise. There were 15,984 dwellings approved in trend terms in June, the highest volume ...

Data from the Australian Energy Market Operator shows that wholesale electricity prices on the East Coast were 23% higher year-on-year in the June quarter. The wholesale price averaged $140 per ...

King dollar is back. AUD is beheaded by the king. Lead boots give up. Oil and gold mark time. Metlas mania implodes. Big mininig, big bear intact. EM flames out. Junk OK. Yields firm. Stocks stall.

The ferrous complex likes to stick to seasonal patterns, but the sgtins are not good when steel gives way. Nor when PMIs give way. China official NBS manufacturing PMI: 49.3 in July, vs. 49.7 in June.

After experiencing one of the biggest booms during the pandemic, New Zealand home values have crashed back to 2019 levels. As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, this decline in ...