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South Australia recognised as 'economic leader'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
... is losing momentum as shown by its sixth ranking on the annual rate of change across the indicators," CommSec chief economist Craig James said. In contrast, Western Australia has had the strongest economic momentum over the past two surveys, giving it ...

Commercial real estate optimism ticks up

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024
... sentiment of commercial real estate is at 34.28%, which is a 2.45% increase from the previous quarter. Knight Frank chief economist Ben Burston said the research showed sentiment was steadily increasing as corporate occupiers respond to an improving ...

Job flexibility, labour market delay retirement age

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
... both men and women are unchanged, which suggests a fundamental shift in labour market dynamics post-COVID. KPMG urban economist Terry Rawnsley said the adoption of working from home has made many older Australians in professional jobs realise that they ...

Australian housing crisis escalates as affordability worsens

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
Rising interest rates and weak disposable income growth have caused housing affordability to drop to its lowest point in decades, according to Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) senior economists. The economists pointed out that Australian Bureau ...

Non-compete clauses come under the microscope

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... 'poach' former clients and almost a quarter subject to no-poach of co-workers agreement," e61 Institute senior research economist Jack Buckley said. "Firms are also planning to increase their use of these restraints. Roughly one in five firms who do ...

Powell confirms rate cuts likely 'at some point' this year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024
... data guide policy, but that interest rates will likely be cut at some point this year," Commonwealth Bank associate economist Harry Ottley said. "Fed chair Jerome Powell said policy makers need to 'have greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman dies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and author, has died aged 90. Kahneman was an Israeli American psychologist whose research into human behaviour upended economics. Kahneman's research demonstrated humans would often abandon logic and ...

US Federal Reserve eyes multiple interest rate cuts this year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... the RBA more likely to do the same, just over half (55%, 17/31) said they didn't think so. Corinna Economic Advisory economist Saul Eslake said the RBA had been intentionally slower to hike rates and will also be slower to cut them than the US and others. ...

Economists react to latest RBA rate decision

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept its cash rate unchanged at 4.35%, as predicted by nearly all economists. HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham stated that the decision was in line with expectations and that there are risks related to the weak productivity ...

Interest rate cut may not come until 2025, experts warn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2024
... possibility of a cut. Of those that weighed in (28), one in four said the RBA won't start cutting rates until 2025. AMP chief economist Shane Oliver said economists were already expecting the RBA to start cutting in June and the inflation numbers have ...
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