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Vance says Fed should lower interest rates: ‘Would be nice to have some help’
4 Sep 2026
The Federal Reserve should cut interest rates to make homes more affordable, Vice President JD Vance said Thursday, adding to the pressure President Donald Trump has placed on the central bank to cut borrowing costs. The remarks came days after Trump’s handpicked Fed…
Read moreThe one thing that caught Goldman Sachs’ notice this earnings season
4 Sep 2026
After the relentless barrage of ASX earnings announcements during the August reporting season, the one thing that stood out the most for Goldman Sachs was the number of companies that rallied on better-than-expected results only…
Read moreGold and bitcoin rallied, but is last year’s hottest trade really back?
As US government debt cracked $US40 trillion ($56 trillion) this month for the first time, gold and bitcoin bulls have been piling back in to the so-called debasement trade, betting on the demise of the US…
RBA cuts US dollar reserves as central banks hedge against Trump
The Reserve Bank of Australia has become the first major central bank to confirm that it has reduced its US dollar holdings as part of a wider trend by policymakers to diversify their assets away…
Stock futures are little changed after Wall Street posts third straight losing day
Stock futures are near flat Tuesday night after a rally in bond yields and oil prices led Wall Street to another down day. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures added 25 points, or 0.1%. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100…
Markets see Warsh endorsing a rate hike in September. Not everyone is convinced
Just a few carefully chosen words from Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh convinced markets that he was serious about inflation and ready to recommend an interest rate hike in just a few weeks. The path in that direction, though,…
Amazon poised to follow Alphabet with $A jumbo bond offer
E-commerce giant Amazon is expected to be the next hyperscaler to tap Australia’s debt market for billions of dollars in capital after Google owner Alphabet raised a record-breaking $5.5 billion earlier this month to help…
This market move is 20 years in the making. RBA and PM should worry
Soft commodities are surging amid war and wild weather. It is a great trade for investors, but the threat of further price rises should worry central bankers. While Donald Trump just sent crude oil prices…
ASX to fall, US bond yields press higher
Australian shares are set to open lower, tracking modest losses in New York as US government bond yields pressed higher and oil rose back above the $US90 a barrel mark amid rising tensions between the…
Dow tumbles 370 points after U.S. strikes Iran, but index posts fifth straight winning month
Stocks fell on Monday after the U.S. and Iran traded fire for the first time in a month, though the major averages still closed out August with gains. The S&P 500 slipped 0.33% to 7,686.14, while the Nasdaq Composite shed 0.12%…
U.S. appeals court rules against prediction markets, sets up likely fight at Supreme Court
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected prediction market platforms’ requests for injunctive relief against the Nevada Gaming Control Board, concluding that sports-related event contracts are not a derivative regulated by the federal government. …
Insolvency boss is an investor in firm that sent him 50 referrals
A prominent liquidator appointed to take charge of the assets of dozens of defaulted borrowers has revealed he is actually a personal investor in the lender who appointed him and that his firm vets the…