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The 2026 global economy: nervously muddling through
The world economy enters 2026 in a nervous state. Volatility and cautious consumers are the norm, even though growth has proven surprisingly resilient.
ATO hits out at coalition of media outlets following ‘alarmist and misleading’ claims
Earlier this week, the Right to Know coalition launched a public awareness campaign pushing for stronger protection of press freedoms and...
Scammers posing as federal officers try to extort money from taxpayers
The South Australian police have issued a warning to the public after two men impersonating federal officers tried to extort money from an...
IMF predicts synchronised slowdown in global growth, warns rate cuts are not enough to stop it
The International Monetary Fund is predicting a "synchronised slowdown" with global growth in 2019 downgraded once again to 3 per cent — noting a...
How are lenders responding to latest rate cut?
Minutes after the RBA announced that it had cut the cash rate to a new record low, Athena announced that it would pass on the full cut across its...
Reserve Bank cuts interest rates to new record low
Making it three cuts in one year, the Reserve Bank announced on Tuesday it has slashed interest rates by 25 basis points to 0.75 per cent as it...
ASIC questions ‘lasting impact’ of CBA Dollarmites and school banking programs
That was the corporate watchdog's preliminary view, buried more than halfway down its latest consultation paper. Read more at the...
Millennial women struggling with financial confidence
The research from industry fund NGS Super found that while 77 per cent of millennial females said financial independence is important to them,...
Women going backwards at the top of corporate Australia
Of the 25 chief executives appointed to lead Australia's top 200 companies in 2019, only two were women, with the percentage of women in the top...
Australia’s economy has slowed to a decade low but the budget may already be back to surplus
In seasonally adjusted terms, GDP expanded by 0.5 per cent over the June quarter, or 1.4 per cent for the year — equal to the worst annual growth...
GDP to hit slowest pace since financial crisis, amid weak ‘business indicators’
Many economists are expecting Wednesday's GDP result to show that the nation's economy grew by 0.5 per cent in the June quarter. Read more at the...
