It is hard to believe that the Dutton-led Coalition now faces the prospect of losing seats at the upcoming federal election. The combination of Donald Trump’s trade war and policy own-goals like promising to ban working from home (since revoked) has sent Coalition support plummeting. The latest YouGov poll shows that Labor now leads the
Sydney’s housing market is losing momentum. CoreLogic’s daily dwelling values index shows that Sydney recorded only a 0.1% rise in the past 28 days, the softest result across the five main capital city markets. Sydney’s 0.1% rise in values compares to 0.6% growth in Melbourne, 0.3% in Brisbane, 0.7% in Adelaide, 0.3% in Perth, and
SGX and rebar futures have firmed a little. The Chinese ferrous PPI is weak, down 0.5% in April and 10% year on year. This will intensify as tariffs land. Goldman has downgraded China. On April 9th, President Trump announced a further increase in the tariff rate on imports from China to 125%, following the Chinese
It’s time to acknowledge that the dream of ‘net zero’ emissions is dead. The world’s top three carbon emitters are China (31.5% of total), the United States (13.0% of total), and India (8.1% of total). In 2023, these three countries accounted for more over half (52.6%) of global carbon emissions. As shown above, China and
This is not what a central bank governor should say as the world falls apart. Inevitably, there will be a period of uncertainty and adjustment as countries respond to the ongoing tariff announcements by the United States administration. It will take some time to see how all of this plays out and the added unpredictability
Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro published intriguing charts showing the sharp decline in consumer inflation expectations. The following chart shows that the long-running monthly Melbourne Institute measure of consumer inflation expectations has fallen to the long-run (1995–2019) average on a quarterly basis. The same holds for consumer inflation expectations two years from now. Justin Fabo
The Market Ear on historical movements in safe havens. Safe? US 30 year closing at another new recent high…and the dollar moving in the totally opposite direction. Big stuff going on under the surface. How safe is safe? Refinitiv VXTLT “Unstoppable”…and possibly even more important watching the VXTLT than the VIX at the moment. Refinitiv
The short covering rally on Wall Street quickly reversed as the insider traders made their profits while the rest of the risk complex gravely worked out that the end is still coming, 90 day stay of execution or not. The USD was shot down with its weakest one day performance in three years with a
DXY is a falling meteor of death. This isn’t going to help tariff inflation. EUR is breaking out. AUD blasted higher. Even concrete boots rose. Oil is down. Gold could do anything here. Commdos reflated a touch. Big miners did not. EM stocks did not. Junk is falling away again, especially EM. As the US
While Australia’s mainstream media and the university and property lobbies continue to lie about the impacts of immigration on the rental market, Canada has provided a dose of reality. In the years following the pandemic, Canada experienced an unprecedented boom in immigration, which drove a record 1.2 million increase in the country’s population in 2023–04.