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Institutional investors' risk appetite trends down: State Street

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
... December 2025. Despite a strong pick-up in institutional risk exposure towards mid-January, uncertainty around Federal Reserve policy, including the Fed chair nomination, as well as market liquidity and valuation concerns drove a more moderate risk stance ...

RBA gives bleak economic outlook

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has revised its economic outlook, showing a higher unemployment rate and slowing GDP growth over 2026. In its Statement on Monetary Policy (SoMP), the central bank expects GDP growth to pick up slightly in the near-term ...

RBA overlooked government spending in rate hike: Hearing

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) came under fire for overlooking the role government spending, which recently peaked again, has played in driving inflation and interest rate decisions. The grilling came off the back of the Monetary Policy Board upping ...

RBA lifts the cash rate for first time since 2023

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2026
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has lifted the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.85% at its board first meeting in 2026. The RBA had either cut or kept the cash rate on hold for the past 17 consecutive meetings. In announcing the decision ...

US economy 'really taking off': UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2026
... since this time last year. It did plunge late last week when [US] President [Donald] Trump nominated a new [US Federal Reserve] chair but that's still up more than 13% in the month," he said. Despite the positive sentiment, Colosimo said it's not ...

Trump taps Kevin Warsh as new Fed chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2026
US President Donald Trump has announced his nomination of Kevin Warsh to serve as the next chair of the US Federal Reserve (Fed), as current chair Jerome Powell's term is set to come to an end in May. The nomination comes at a time of contention between ...

Fed leaves rates on hold as Powell issues message to Trump

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) left the interest rate on hold at 3.5% - 3.75% overnight, as was widely expected. The rate hold comes in the wake of the US Department of Justice serving the Fed with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment ...

Inflation 'uncomfortably high' as it rises to 3.8%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2026
... rose 4.4%. VanEck head of investments and capital markets Russell Chesler said the read will not be favourable to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board, which will meet next week for its first interest rate decision of the new year. "Inflation remains ...

Unemployment rate may tip the scale in favour of February RBA hike

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2026
... the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The unexpectedly robust employment numbers have added to the possibility of a Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) interest rate hike back when the board meets for the February meeting. BetaShares chief economist ...

Gold soars over Trump's Greenland rhetoric

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
Safe-haven assets are being favoured by investors with gold prices skyrocketing off the back of US President Donald Trump's rhetoric around Greenland. Global X ETFs said it has seen average weekly flows into its suite of gold ETFs increase in 2026 as ...