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Many borrowers are about to suffer huge interest rate increases independently of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s moves.
Investors believe the Reserve Bank of Australia’s cash rate will peak at 3.5 per cent, but are not pricing in much in the way of future cuts.
The sharp decline in US inflation means we are approaching the end of the rising interest rate cycle.
This inflation crisis has changed the world and asset prices forever, and will lead to a structural break and a fundamental shift in the way things...
It will be longer than normal and unlikely to be followed by a big bounce in prices like past downturns.
A global recession next year will pose challenges for many asset classes including shares and illiquid investments that have not yet adjusted to much...
The pain is set to continue for many more months to come unless the Reserve Bank swings 180 degrees and starts cutting interest rates.
Many borrowers who took out ultra-cheap home loans will soon face mortgage rates that are 40 per cent more than the maximum their lender thought they...
Bitcoin may not be the seizure-resistant store of wealth many assume.
Asset prices have to adjust down to lower levels due to higher cash rates, and future capital gains will be anaemic at best.
Commercial property yields are paying their lowest premium above government bond yields in history, which presages big price falls.
Evidence is being uncovered of central banks raising rates on the basis of very rubbery expectations regarding the ability of economies to withstand...
Spendthrift politicians have been forced to bend the knee at the altar of their frugal financiers, with more capitulations likely.
Record migration should buy the Reserve Bank time to avoid lifting the cash rate to the 4.1 per cent plus level currently priced by markets.
Previously protected by zero rates and QE-to-infinity, many companies may now be torched by inflation and expensive money where the fallout will be...
While the Bank of England has restored order to the UK government bond market, investors remain very jittery about the prospects for asset prices. The...
The sharemarket appears to be struggling to synthesise key signals from data releases and messages from the US central bank.
There has only been one economic driver of this correction: the Reserve Bank’s near-record increase in the cost of borrowing.
An incredible 34 per cent of all ASX companies would be classified as “zombies” based on their inability to produce sufficient profits to cover...
A shift in the potential for conflict and fall out from rapidly increasing interest rates could leave many exposed.
Prepare for the first interest rate-led business default cycle since the 1991 recession.
While higher interest rates are crushing the housing market, they are creating attractive high-yield investment prospects.