Interest rates are the cost of money when borrowed or loaned, and are used to control inflation and economic growth. But why do interest rates rise and fall, and how can they affect you?
2020 Year in Review
Just as we were recovering from the long drought and the worst bushfires on record, the global coronavirus pandemic took hold and changed everything.
Making your savings work harder
With tax cuts and stimulus payments on the way, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is urging us to open our wallets and spend to kick start the national economy. If your personal balance sheet could do with a kick along, then saving and investing what you can also makes sense.
Housing market: shaken but not stirred
With Australia in a COVID-induced recession, residential property is not immune to falling economic activity. Yet housing prices are proving surprisingly resilient. Only months ago, economists were forecasting a housing price slump of 20% or more. Now, most have revised their forecasts to price falls of between five and 10%.
Market Update | March 2020
The Pulse Despite a reasonably robust underlying economy, the impact of the coronavirus is likely to weigh heavily on the US and other China‐exposed economies.
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