Donald Trump’s second term has given Europe one fight after another. Tariffs, Greenland, Ukraine, and Iran have all had their turn. Read more
Our dollar has fallen a lot since 24 August. On 30 September it was down 6% against the US dollar, 3.2% against the Australian dollar and 4.8% against the Reserve Bank's basket of currencies. Read more
Imagining 19th-century schooling might bring to mind characters like Thomas Gradgrind from Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times. Gradgrind was a disciplinarian, obsessed with drilling facts into pupils' resistant brains. Read more
Five weeks out from an election, bottom lines are everywhere. Almost every minor party has one. Read more
| GDP Quarterly Change: | 0.44% |
|---|---|
| Inflation: | 3.98% |
| Optimal OCR: | 2.99% |
| Optimal OCR Gap: | 0.24% |
| Forecasted OCR Change: | 0.25% |
