Interest rates
Analysis
Australia votes
Superannuation housing ‘solution’ will drive up prices
Coming to a Saturday auction near you - first time buyers with an extra $50,000 in their pockets that will push up prices and make housing more unaffordable.
- by Shane Wright
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Opinion
Opinion
Why CBA boss isn’t worried about inflation or higher interest rates
Matt Comyn doesn’t think the sky is falling on the economy nor that the Australian housing market is set for a hard landing.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Opinion
Inflation
Investors looked beyond the numbers. They didn’t like what they saw
The driving force behind surging interest rates and the implosions in financial markets appears to have peaked. But appearances can be deceptive.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Analysis
Cryptocurrencies
High-interest crypto accounts come with risks
Earning out-sized interest on crypto is attractive, but investors need to be aware of the risks.
- by John Collett
Land sales on city’s outskirts slump as rate rise hits
The Reserve Bank’s recent rate rise is being felt most keenly in Victoria’s hot house and land market where land sales are coming off the boil after two years of supercharged activity.
- by Nicole Lindsay
How long does it take for a rate rise to hit the housing market?
Experts say the historic lag between an interest rate change and its effect on the market is shortening.
- by Kate Burke
Opinion
World markets
Markets are wobbling and more pain looms on the horizon
Risk is back at the front of investors’ minds for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis as central banks try to control raging inflation. It makes for uncertain times ahead.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Opinion
How high will interest rates go?
Financial markets are tipping the official cash rate – now at 0.35 per cent – to hit close to 3 per cent by the end of the year.
- by Jessica Irvine
Analysis
Cash
Three of big four banks pass on official rate rise to savers
Australia’s biggest bank, the Commonwealth, is yet to follow the other big three in passing on the 0.25 percentage point increase in official interest rates to savers.
- by John Collett
Inflation off the lot: More rate rises to weigh down speeding economy
Used cars are supposed to get cheaper, but inflation pressures are pushing up their prices, the cost of living and now interest rates.
- by Shane Wright and Rachel Clun
Analysis
Analysis
How are inflation, interest rates and wages linked?
Interest rates have gone up. We now wait and see what effect this will have on wages and inflation.
- by Jessica Irvine