Commodity prices show weakness; China extends support, promises more; US still worried about inflation; heat & bushfires ...

Anyway, that’s where we’re headed in 2025, it seems: cheaper and more capable models, which more people can afford to use, ...

We look at some basic building blocks of our interest rate settings, the foundation on which the 2025 changes will play out ...

Ross Stitt reports Australia enters 2025 in 'reasonable economic shape', but facing a world that 2024 shaped with uniquely high risks. Australia is both an opportunity and a risk for New Zealand ...

Global factory PMIs turn down; global freight rates twisted by tariff reactions; China slips but signals new support; UST ...

Nouriel Roubini considers what the US president-elect's promised policy agenda will mean for growth, and inflation ...

Without taxpayer subsidies, the new car market twisted while it shrank, but buyers gravitated to petrol hybrids rather than ...

Kenneth Rogoff worries about the incoming US administration's plans to weaken the American central bank's independence ...

The global economy is very large. The New Zealand economy is very small. This is one way to view our relative place in the economic world ...

With all mortgages looking like a commodity, little different between institutions, banks are finding it difficult to win new ...

US data mixed; China sees some factory expansion; USD strength hurts many currencies; ETFs have spectacular year; UST 10yr at ...

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