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Reporting season may prove dramatic: UBS

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2023
... with UBS readings on the almost completed US results season where the ratio of Q4 beats neared a post Global Financial Crisis (GFC) low. "Extra focus will likely be on companies that provide insights into the rapidly evolving Aussie consumer and or housing ...

Government progresses social housing measures

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2023
... additional $330 million will be spent on repairing and improving housing in remote Indigenous communities ($200m), establishing crisis and transitional housing options for women and children impacted by family and domestic violence and older women at ...

Norwegian wealth fund reports -14.1% return

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
... The oil fund recorded the biggest loss in its history. Its previous largest loss was in 2008 amid the Global Financial Crisis when it shed $86 billion. With a return of -14.1% for the year, the fund said it was 0.88 percentage points better than its ...

Skill shortage to continue to cost Aussie companies

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2023
Australian companies will continue to suffer at the hands of the skill shortage crisis in 2023, with 70% of employers stating the lack of talent will cost them. According to research conducted by specialised recruiter Robert Half, the recent 3.5% unemployment ...

Australia's 1% just keep getting richer: Study

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2023
... benefiting the already wealthy and privileged while leaving behind everyday Australians battling with the cost-of-living crisis."

World Bank warns of a sharp global growth decline

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2023
... advanced economies and 70% of emerging market and developing economies. World Bank Group president David Malpass said the crisis facing development is intensifying as the global growth outlook deteriorates. "Emerging and developing countries are facing ...

Survey shows impact of inflation on industry pay rises

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
... Of those surveyed, 97% of candidates told researchers that the minimum fair pay rise during the current cost of living crisis would either need to match or surpass inflation, showing expectations among the workforce are growing increasingly disconnected ...

HESTA commits $240m to build-to-rent pipeline

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022
... and in due course, completed assets." There are society-wide negative impacts associated with the housing affordability crisis, Daff added. "It was not that long ago we were worried about how ordinary working Australians were able to purchase their first ...

Cost of retirement in lockstep with inflation: ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022
... causes of those increases lie mainly outside Australia. ASFA deputy chief executive Glen McCrea said: "The global energy crisis, raw material scarcity, and supply chain disruptions caused by ongoing Covid lockdowns in China are converging to pose significant ...

Hopes for action at "implementation" COP27

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2022
... richest, worst carbon polluting countries to help less developed nations who suffer from the frontline impacts of the climate crisis such as losses such as species extinction, and damages caused by catastrophic events linked to climate change. In terms ...