The big four banks all predict the RBA will lower the cash rate — currently 4.35 per cent — at its 17-18 February meeting.

The banks and regulators met on Wednesday afternoon without the cash transit monopoly to work out how to replace Westpac’s ...

For a number of years, the Reserve Bank of Australia has been operating under a cloud of self-doubt that it should work to ...

There’s no reason to stop it. Inflation is tumbling. Inflation expectations re-anchored. Wage growth is smashed. The recent ...

Australia’s biggest bank is betting house prices will fall in early 2025, but rise again later in the year and finish 4 per ...

This time John Kehoe at the AFR, who MB likes sometimes because he’s more honest about immigration, but is like his rotten ...

The beleaguered residential property market will be one key transmission mechanism through which the RBA’s interest rate relief will affect the wider economy.

Australia’s ultra-benign inflation for the final three months of 2024 has put a wrecking ball through any resistance to the ...

Australia’s quarterly inflation data this week may be key to whether the central bank finally embarks on a monetary easing ...