Interest Rates

Sean Langcake from BIS Oxford Economics says people will have to remain patient waiting for a rate cut with core inflation numbers ticking up.

Wall Street cheered the relatively orthodox choice the US president-elect made for his Treasury secretary nomination. Within hours, Trump threatened tariffs on key trading partners, reminding markets it's his world, not his cabinet's.

House prices in Sydney and Melbourne are set to decline further in 2025, while Perth is likely to experience the strongest growth among Australia's capital cities, according to SQM Research's latest Boom and Bust Report.

Wages growth in Australia slows to 3.5 per cent over the past year, according to official data, still outpacing inflation to result in modest real wage increases.

There are more sellers than buyers in the Canberra property market, as a new report finds home values declined over the last three months.

RBA governor Michele Bullock says she didn't "caution" the government about its spending, and its attitude on spending is "the right one".

Tens, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of Australians waiting for interest rates to start falling will have to keep waiting for some time — potentially a long while.

Ivan Calhoun says there are signs the RBA board is seeing improvements in inflation, which could mean modest rate cuts through the first half of next year.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has kept interest rates on hold at 4.35 per cent for its eighth-straight meeting despite inflation falling to its lowest level in almost four years.

As the Reserve Bank meets to consider whether to cut interest rates, housing affordability is again centre stage of the political debate. A federal inquiry is considering whether there's a need to ease restrictions on banks about how much they can lend out to first home buyers.

Even though inflation is within the RBA's ideal range, economists are banking on high interest rates hanging around for a little bit longer. 

Although national property prices increased again in October, the latest CoreLogic data suggests the housing market is cooling ahead of forecasted interest rate cuts early next year.

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Prices rose by 0.2 per cent in the September quarter, according to the ABS, compared to the 1 per cent rise in the three months through June. Underlying inflation remains above the Reserve Bank's target.

Each generation has had its own unique struggles with first-home ownership. But which has had it the worst? Experts say it has little to do with smashed avo. 

As Australians await stronger signals that a rates reprieve is imminent here, across the Tasman, New Zealand's central bank has again taken the knife to its key interest rate.

Australia would be among the countries that would suffer most from what Trump is proposing, after the US and China.

Australians are increasingly hopeful that cost of living pressures are about to ease, and expect to receive an interest rate cut soon, according to new polling.

National home prices rose in September, new data shows, but some of the heat continues to come out of the housing market as more owner-occupiers and investors consider selling.