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Property Buyers’ Plans Destroyed By “Higher For Longer” Rate Trends!
The combination of high prices and interest rates is seeing affordability become extremely stretched at a time when cost-of-living pressures more generally are also...
Grab A Seat Belt As Market Volatility Shakes Confidence And Prices!
This is our weekly market update. Another crazy week on markets, as geo-political worries collided with the stronger “higher for longer to fight sticky...
Markets Rethink Rate Cuts As Central Bank Hawks Jawbone!
It’s become a bit of a ritual, as members of various committees linked to Central Bank interest rate decisions speak in the open spaces...
More Data Pushing Rate Cuts Out, as Labour Markets Hold Up (Again)!
On Thursday Australia’s jobless rate rose to 3.8 per cent in March, which was broadly in line with the market’s expectations, and ahead of...
The Real Costs Of Migration!
In an increasingly globalized workforce — which intensified in the wake of Covid-19 as nations looked to fill acute worker shortages — New Zealand...
The Sticky Inflation Problem Will Bite Hard!
US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has confirmed fears that interest rate cuts in the US would be later rather than sooner as inflation...