With the end of the month, so too comes the release of the latest housing price data from Cotality (the artist formerly known as Corelogic) and PropTrack.

The start of the new trading week is coinciding with the end of the month and for some, the financial year, which is leading to a lot of window dressing across risk markets in Asia.

Livewire with the note. CBA operates in a domestic banking market with limited credit growth in Australia, selling an identical product to that offered by four other competitors (now including Macquarie), all of which have the same cost of production (capital).

Three weeks ago, the Chinese government and the Trump administration came to a very rough agreement on trade, tariffs, and the supply of vital materials each side respectively controlled.

This is ridiculous.

The gas cartel’s corrupt mouthpiece, the Grattan Institute, is facing more backlash over its idiotic gas ban taken up by an even more stupid Allan government.

Treasurer Jim “chicken” Chalmers loves to pose as a reformer of great reknown but is just another cookie-cut Canberra immigration sodomite.

As Australia’s mediocre media cheers another entirely predictable “shock” better than expected budget balance, a glance beyond our nose tells us that something much messier is squeezing down the pipe at speed.

In recent weeks the issue of AI has been on the Albanese government’s agenda, as the run-up to the government’s “roundtable” on productivity continues.

There’s a nice little head and shoulders bottom on iron ore futures that I hope runs for a bit on the broadening melt-up.

In an article last Monday for the ABC, Patricia Karvelas made the case that demographic shifts in the nation’s electorate would assist Labor in its efforts to tackle the issue of tax reform.

The Market Ear with the charts.

Mark Litwin, Head of Investment Sales (NSW) at Knight Frank, penned a report on Sydney’s housing market fundamentals, which are underpinned by “persistent undersupply”.

DXY held Friday night, but EUR is a runaway locomotive.

By Lucinda Jerogin, Associate Economist at CBA Australian CPI inflation surprised to the downside at 2.1%/yr in May 2025.

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

  Today we meet Ted.

In this MacroBusiness podcast, Gunnamatta and Leith van Onselen unpack the budget outlook, the deindustrialisation of Australia, housing policy failures, energy policy failures, and the nation’s falling productivity growth.

Share markets in Asia are again failing to follow the ebullient mood on Wall Street with the latest industrial production numbers in China disappointing while Japanese core inflation numbers are still relatively high, giving the Nikkei a boost above the 40000 point level.

On Wednesday, the rush to the bottom by Australian policymakers to pump housing demand entered yet another chapter, this time with multiple state government’s taking their turn.

A 2024 report by the Penington Institute claimed that cannabis has become an integral part of the criminal economy, representing a $5 billion black market in Australia that generates massive profits for transnational gangs.

I love iron ore sometimes.

Last week, CBA economist Harry Ottley reported on the quarterly labour market account from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), which showed that 60% of the nation’s job growth since the beginning of the pandemic has come from the non-market (government-aligned) sector.