Miscellaneous

If you are curious about the differences in methodology between myself and the usual auction data providers, there is an explanation down the page.

Local Reads Senior home affairs official abused public office to get her future brother-in-law a job, Nacc finds – Guardian…absolute disgrace….

In the run up to the latest Australian retail sales data analysts were expecting a sizable +0.4% month on month bounce, after April saw nominal retail sales fall by 0.1% on a seasonally adjusted basis.

Today we have the auction results for the two biggest markets Sydney and Melbourne, but using a bit of a different approach.

    AUD/USD EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD Gold WTI Brent Australia 200 US S&P 500 UK 100 Japan 225   …..and furthermore…..

May Chinese credit was soft.

The Israeli war on Iran has dominated the final session of the trading week here in Asia with all share markets finishing in the red, with a very small bid towards the USD for a safe haven bid, except gold.

Via S&P.

The Market Ear on a possibe bear market.

Australians are about to be jilted.

    DeepT and NG talk about the financial system implications of the Trump tariffs and whether for Australia these are inflationary or deflationary, and the likely response from the RBA.

The Market Ear on the chaos.

  Weird things happen.