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Interest rates at highest level in 15 years

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2026
... strategy Dwyfor Evans said the hike means consumers will continue to face cost-of-living pressures, negative real wage growth, and a softer labour market. "RBA comments were largely centred on global energy prices, their rise compared to August assumptions ...

Fed's rate hike exacerbates Australia's outlook

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2026
... increase of 4.75% may well filter into increases received by higher income earners during the year. "Public sector wage growth for the year to 30 June 2026 was also relatively high at 3.4% ahead of the private sector at 3.1%. The GDP print of 0.4% for ...

FEATURE: Cryptocurrency, control and confidence

VINNY VUCAGO  |  SATURDAY, 15 AUG 2026
... APRA-regulated super funds. The shift is unfolding against a backdrop of worsening housing affordability, subdued wage growth and growing scepticism that conventional pathways to wealth will deliver the financial security previous generations enjoyed. ...

S&P reaffirms Australia's AAA credit rating

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2026
... positioned to navigate ongoing global uncertainty, pointing to relatively strong economic growth, low unemployment, solid wage growth and stronger public finances than many advanced economies. "There are people who will always try to talk down our economy ...

FEATURE | Emerging markets: Twists and turns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2026
... overcapacity and even thinner corporate profits, with severe consequences for the financial health of Chinese companies. Wage growth already stands at barely 1% and could drop lower," Bruegel said. "This will further reinforce the weakness of domestic ...

Chalmers chooses 'hard road of reform' in Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2026
... these challenges with faster growth at the end of last year than any major advanced economy, low unemployment, solid wage growth and stronger public finances than most of the developed world."

Wealth levels triple for middle Australia: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2026
... wealth, the report found. From 1996 to 2025, net returns on super in profit-to-member funds were two times higher than wage growth, helping to reduce cost-of-living pressures for retirees. The report found super also broadened household assets beyond ...

GDP rise is 'good news that's actually bad news'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
... difficulty to the RBA's task of balancing growth and inflation." On the more positive side of things, Smith pointed to wage growth, which is growing but slowly. " One small mercy for Australians worried about another rate hike: the national accounts ...

Inflation rises 3.8%, rate rise 'firmly in play'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
... data suggests another rate rise is likely at the RBA's May meeting. "Tight labour market conditions and elevated wage growth, alongside ongoing inflationary pressures, are likely to keep the RBA on a tightening path," Chong said. "The market is currently ...

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

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2026
... has become more material. Sycamore added: "The RBA's key concern here will be that this tightness will feed into wage growth and, more broadly, into inflation within an Australian economy where price pressures are already uncomfortably high." "[The] ...
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