Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) Blog

This week Edwin, our property insider and I go though the latest data on building approvals, auctions and listing and ask whether the MSM media commentary about potential property price falls makes sense. We also examine the latest issues facing high-rise and approvals ease back, while demand for stand alone property rockets. Edwin also make … Continue reading "Its Edwin’s Monday Evening Property Rant!"

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. Perhaps never before has it been so important to delve into the market’s weird behaviour, as traders are now back on the AI hype, following tangible results … Continue reading "The AI Candle Draws The Markets’ Moths, Despite The Economic Disaster Ahead!"

Another outing with journalist Tarric Brooker as week at the clocks counting down to potential disaster as a result of the Gulf War. From oil, to food and more things are likely to deteriorate from here, even if there is some real peace agreement with Iran. We go though some critical slides to underscore the … Continue reading "Slip-Sliding Away; The Clocks Are Ticking: With Tarric Brooker"

The spate of Central Bank meetings this week, with Canada and The Fed done, the Bank of England today and the RBA next week, continues to stress the high-levels of uncertainty relating to monetary policy, thanks to the Gulf Conflict, and the trajectory of energy prices. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned the energy shock … Continue reading "Central Banks Now Have A Perfect Alibi!"

Inflation, which was already about the RBA’s target before the Gulf War spiked up to 4.6 per cent in March driven in part by the Middle East conflict which strangled global oil supply and pushed up petrol prices, and note that the data did not capture the impact of the Albanese government’s halving of the … Continue reading "Annual CPI Inflation: Highest Since September 2023 (And Rising)!"

This is an edit of a live show in which we examined the fall out coming to the property market as recent Government policy collides with the consequence of the Gulf War. Will the upcoming Budget make things better or worse? I was joined by Leith van Onselen, Chief Economist and Co-founder of Macrobusiness. Go … Continue reading "DFA Live Q&A HD Replay: The Perfect Property Storm Ahead? With Leith van Onselen"

Join our property insider Edwin Almeida and I for another wander down the latest property news, as we look at migration, property market dynamics, and changes to EV policies, and the rental markets. Below the surface, the simplistic messages from some, are shown up as half truths when you go deep, as we always do! … Continue reading "Its Edwin’s Monday Evening Property Rant!"

The Australian property market only goes one way, if you believe the Real Estate Agents, the online spruikers, and even many ordinary households as we often see the belief that prices almost religiously double every 10-year coming though in our surveys. But of course, the reality is much more complex. This is partly because we … Continue reading "Will “The Perfect Storm” Hit The Property Market?"

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!"