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NAB, Deutsche Bank and UBS all tip a rise to 4.6 per cent at the Reserve Bank's next meeting, the dollar is back above 72 US cents, and the Treasurer will not say whether he thinks another rise is needed.
NAB, Deutsche Bank and UBS all tip a rise to 4.6 per cent at the Reserve Bank's next meeting, the dollar is back above 72 US cents, and the Treasurer will not say whether he thinks another rise is needed.
Fixed-rate home loans, business credit lines and the federal government's own interest bill share one reference point: long-term borrowing costs. Australia's 10-year government bond yield has risen to about 5.19 per cent.
Mining profits rebounded 6.8 per cent and everyone else went backwards. Inventory prices added $3.7 billion to the headline. The GDP print has since landed at 0.4 per cent.
Treasury analysis estimates AI could boost Australia's labour productivity growth by 4.3 per cent over the next decade, adding approximately $116 billion to GDP and $4,300 to per capita incomes.
Australia's private credit squeeze is spreading: CVS Lane has suspended investor redemptions after a Sydney developer's collapse, the second fund to narrow the exit inside a week.
The monthly CPI indicator released on 26 August put the trimmed mean at 0.5 per cent for July 2026, the largest single-month rise in the core measure over the past year, against a market consensus of 0.3 per cent.
The number that defines this IPO is not the raise. It is the gap. Shein Global Holdings Limited is pricing its Hong Kong float at up to US$27 billion, a ceiling that sits at less than 28 per cent of the US$98.2 billion valuation it secured in its 2022 private funding round. That is not a haircut.
