This is our weekly market update where we start in the US, cross to Europe and Asia, and end in Australia, covering commodities and crypto along the way. Something simply does not add up. US equities surged higher in their final session of the week, bolstered by hopes of peace talks between the US and … Continue reading "Instrument Warning: Is A Market Correction Incoming?"

This week we got an interesting report from the RBA , contained in their April 2026 Bulletin titled Cash Use in Australia: What the 2025 Consumer Payments Survey Tells Us. Citing recent comments from Governor Michelle Bullock, they say the RBA is committed to supporting the Australian Government’s policy objective to ensure cash remains a … Continue reading "The Uncomfortable Truth About Cash Use In Australia!"

U.S. stock futures edged lower on Thursday, as investors kept tabs on tensions in the Middle East and gauged an incoming raft of corporate results. Although oil prices have eased back from an initial spike after the start of the war in late February, they are still well above pre-conflict levels. Worries have abounded that … Continue reading "Are Markets Misreading The Middle East War?"

Austral is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 42 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool. Austral and Leppington North have been rezoned to accommodate significant population growth, with at least 17,350 new homes planned across … Continue reading "How Planning, Property, And Austral Collided!"

Another dive into the latest property news with our insider Edwin Almeida. How should we interpret the latest “home prices are falling” news? What do the latest numbers tell us? How will the economy develop, and how will the property market be impacted? How will the rise of Indian Manufacturing change the migration story? Are … Continue reading "Its Edwin’s Monday Evening Property Rant!"

Hold my beer, because according to an article in the AFR, Sydney, Melbourne house prices are going backwards, even though the others are not! Quoting the daily data from Cotality, they say rolling daily index shows home values in Sydney and Melbourne have been shrinking since February and were 0.04 per cent down as of … Continue reading "Oh No! Property Prices Are Falling!"

This is our weekly market update, where we start in the US cross to Europe and Asia and end in Australia, covering commodities and crypto along the way. We saw dominoes falling in the middle east this week as Israel who has been battling Hezbollah, a key ally of Tehran and Lebanon agreed to a … Continue reading "The Hormuz Mirage Fools The Markets!"

In the latest edition of our regular show journalist Tarric Brooker and I take a deep dive into the Australian property market, and how it has changed, thanks to Government intervention and what may lay ahead. We also examine the latest on the Gulf War, and the fallout in terms of oil supply, and again … Continue reading "Is Housing Toast? With Tarric Brooker"

We are in a phony war at the moment, as the real effects of the Gulf War, and the spike in fuel prices are yet to hit the rear-facing data as reported by the ABS and others. The forward-looking confidence data has crashed of course, with consumer sentiment down as reported by the MI and … Continue reading "Rear View Mirror Says Employment Is Fine; Just Don’t Look Ahead!"

As the Gulf War hangs in the balance and the Straits of Hormoz remain shut, or nearly so, economists are having a field day with a tranche of gloomy economic scenarios. Actually, given the great state of uncertainty which exists, with prospective talks resuming, according to Trump, and rumours of China putting pressure on Iran … Continue reading "Is An Economic Crisis Incoming?"