Risk markets in Asia are reacting with some trepidation after the Friday night cut by ratings agency Moody on US debt, with ...

You can’t keep a good Titanic up, and there’s no better example than Chinese property, which continues to sink despite ...

For a short while, anyway, Goldman. Both IMF and Elane (a Chinese shipping data company) provide vessel traffic data ...

Peter Cook, cross-posted from Pearls & Irritations. If ecological sustainability must be the basis for population policy, ...

The Market Ear wraps us up. Fade the rip? “…one of our contrarian trading rules…when >88% of MSCI global stock indices ...

Steel is showing the tariff strain. We are entering the year’s weakest seasonal period so iron ore ought to follow. Chinese ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) published data last month revealing that Victorians pay the highest state and local ...

Risk markets seem to have concluded that the Trump Tariff Tax Trade Tiff is nearly over, and everything will go back to being ...

This comes straight from the annals of the Department of Redundancy Department. Via Bloomberg: Australia’s Productivity Commission has identified 15 priority reforms to examine in the course of five ...

China (31.5% in 2023) and India (8.1% share in 2023) are driving the growth in global carbon emissions. The reason is simple: both have an insatiable appetite for coal. The following chart from Oxford ...

Australian rental affordability has never been worse, with tenants required to sacrifice a record share of their income to rent the median home. This decline in affordability follows a circa 50% ...

The construction sector has experienced the nation’s highest rate of insolvencies, with 2,795 firms failing this financial ...