Australia leads a global rise in services PMIs; China improves; Trudeau resigns; German inflation rises; eyes on China ...

New Zealand’s current account deficit, now running at $27 bln per annum, is increasingly dominated by interest on historical ...

Lynda Moore says now is a good time to develop a money plan - a roadmap for your financial goals and aspirations ...

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

A bond bubble is developing in Chinese financial markets and regulators are scrambling to contain it and defuse the ...

Ross Stitt reports Australia enters 2025 in 'reasonable economic shape', but facing a world that 2024 shaped with uniquely ...

Roger J Kerr sees the US Fed continuing to change its dot-plots in 2025. He also thinks most local analysts are missing the ...

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

Beijing-based David Mahon is watching China adjust to a world with greater chaos, weaker global institutions, more protectionism and a shrinking global economy. He sees a China making its own ...

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 ...

2024 was a year of when interest rates turned lower, when 'normalisation' occurred in the world's largest economies.