Property listings tumble in April, house prices up in big cities

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Results released yesterday by SQM Research reveal national residential listings dropped 8.3% to 322,400 over the month of April 2017. The data reveals Sydney and Melbourne posted the biggest drop in... Read more continue reading

Trump’s First 100 Days: Should Investors Take Notice?

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Looking at several metrics – legislative achievements, staffing in key areas and executive orders – President Trump’s first-100-day track record has been mixed. U.S. President Donald Trump is close to... Read more continue reading

Forgotten France

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“The first round of the French presidential election went as markets and polls anticipated. Although the center-left candidate, Emmanuel Macron, will probably win the final round in a couple of... Read more continue reading

Petrol prices differ markedly across the country

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Petrol prices Petrol: According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average Australian price of unleaded petrol rose by 3.8 cents to 130.6 cents a litre in the past... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 28 April, 2017

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw “risk on” following the outcome of the first round of the French election and in anticipation of... Read more continue reading

Business support for Federal Government now negative; lowest under Turnbull

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Support for the Federal Government among small and medium businesses (SMBs) has fallen into negative territory and to the lowest level since Malcolm Turnbull took over as Prime Minister, according... Read more continue reading

Learning to love Janet Yellen

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Principal Global Investors Chief Global Economist, Bob Baur, comments on U.S. monetary policy, China’s latest trade data and the synchronised global upturn. In a recent Wall Street Journal interview, President... Read more continue reading

CommSec State of the States April 2017

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Overall Results How are Australia’s states and territories performing? Each quarter CommSec attempts to find out by analysing eight key indicators: economic growth; retail spending; business investment; unemployment; construction work... Read more continue reading

‘Frexit’ looms over coming French presidential elections

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Philippe Waechter, Chief Economist, Natixis Asset Management looks at the market implications of a “Frexit”: “Currency would be at the very crux of the new framework that France would need... Read more continue reading

Economy-wide spending picks up pace

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Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Index The Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Indicator (BSI) – a measure of economy-wide spending – rose by 0.6 per cent in trend terms in March –... Read more continue reading