Strong US retail sales data and Walmart’s robust results have boosted Wall Street and investor confidence, suggesting the US economy will avoid a recession and achieve a soft landing. Retail sales ...
The copper price is important to the Australian economy. Last year, approximately $6.6 billion of copper was exported by Australian companies. Rio Tinto and BHP as well as other resources companies ...
In her testimony before Australia’s parliament, Governor Michelle Bullock reiterated the RBA’s view that it is “premature to be thinking about rate cuts” given inflation is “still too high“. That said ...
Central bank independence is not a factor of modern economic management that we should take for granted. Indeed, there is a long and checkered history of government interference with the setting of ...
Oil prices rose close to $90 a barrel the other week as Saudi Arabia and Russia said they would extend their voluntary production and export cuts until the end of the year. Saudi Arabia, which leads ...