Further signs that petrol has bottomed

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Weekly petrol prices Petrol prices ease: According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average Australian price of petrol fell by 2.4 cents per litre last week to 108.6... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 30 January, 2015

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets have had a mixed week with messy US earnings results and worries about the Fed and Greece weighing on... Read more continue reading

Greece and the ECB – is the Eurozone crisis about to make a comeback?

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Introduction With Greece back in the headlines after Syriza’s election win, it’s natural to wonder whether we are going to see a rerun of the Eurozone crisis that roiled global... Read more continue reading

Petrol at 6-year lows: have prices bottomed?

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Weekly petrol prices Petrol prices ease: According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average Australian price of petrol fell by 4.7 cents per litre last week to 111.0... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 23 January, 2015

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets had a good week driven by a strong quantitative easing (QE) program from the ECB along with good US... Read more continue reading

Record numbers of Seniors in work. Apartment sales at 11-year highs

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Detailed job data; New home sales More seniors: The latest jobs data show that there are more people over 65 years of age in the “civilian population” than in the... Read more continue reading

A look at housing in 2015

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We expect new dwelling construction to be 193K in 2015, staying near the record level of 2014. The major drivers of housing construction are firm population growth, very low mortgage... Read more continue reading

The threat of global deflation

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Introduction While a constant concern since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has been that easy monetary policies would cause surging inflation it simply hasn’t occurred. The absence of inflationary pressures... Read more continue reading

More confident, but does it matter?

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Consumer confidence Consumer sentiment: The Westpac/Melbourne Institute index of consumer confidence rose by 2.4 per cent in January to 93.2. The ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly survey previously showed that confidence rose... Read more continue reading

Above-average consumer confidence

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Consumer confidence Consumer confidence rises: The weekly ANZ/Roy Morgan consumer confidence rating rose by 1.4 per cent in the week to January 18 to a 4-week high of 113.6, well... Read more continue reading