Australia has too many cafes, and many will need to close down. According to IBIS World, over 27,000 cafes and coffee shops ...

New Zealand experienced one of the world’s biggest house price booms over the pandemic, with prices soaring by around 30%. As ...

Now this is some good news on gas for once. The planned LNG import terminal at Port Kembla, backed by billionaire Andrew ...

Exorbitant land costs are the fundamental driver behind Australia’s expensive housing. During 2023-24, the residential land ...

It’s a new and improved Albo with the same old message. “We had progressive patriotism,” Albanese said of the Labor campaign ...

DXY is taking a breather. That could not help the AUD. No lead boots. Gold up. Metals down. Big miners still look fugly. EM ...

Australian households are experiencing their longest recession in generations. The Q4 national accounts released in March ...

Much ado about nothing in iron ore. Some good charts from ANZ. Property steel is still falling. I expect it to fall much more than they do this year. Non-property demand is going nowhere in volume ...

More pain from The Market Ear. After the China/US trade talks JPM’s great derivatives team dives in: “The China-US trade talks in Geneva have been more positive than anticipated and have resulted in a ...

Cotality (formerly CoreLogic) reported that the total value of Australia’s housing stock was $11.3 trillion as of April 30, ...

The Q4 national accounts release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that households had suffered the ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released housing finance data for Q1 2025 showing that the value of new housing ...