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If your mortgage is being held hostage by uncooperative lenders, there are some tricks you can try.

Help! I’m in ‘mortgage prison’, how soon can I get free?

If your mortgage is being held hostage by uncooperative lenders, there are some tricks you can try.

  • Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

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Finance Minister Katy Gallagher and Treasurer Jim Chalmers watch the PM speak on Wednesday.

Rate cut all but locked in for May despite higher-than-expected inflation

Economists and financial markets believe a quarter percentage point cut in May, worth $100 a month to repayments on a $600,000 mortgage, is all but a done deal due to the latest ABS figures.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
Donald Trump’s tariff plans could cost the Australian economy $13 billion in lower growth, and his own economy more than $1 trillion.

Australia faces $13 billion hit as Trump’s tariffs wreak havoc

Uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump’s tariff war will slow the global economy, a global wake-up call insists.

  • Shane Wright
President Donald Trump, the First Lady and the Easter Bunny at the annual egg roll at the White House.

Hegseth has bounced into another hot mess but Trump seems inclined to sack the wrong guy

Rather than taking a hard look at his troubled defence secretary, the president is studying how he could fire the Federal Reserve chairman for failing to cut interest rates.

  • Michael Koziol
Jerome Powell and his officials hold rates steady as they resist Donald Trump’s calls to cut borrowing costs.

Regulators warned the US bond market was vulnerable. Trump is proving them right

The world’s traditional havens in times of stress have themselves become sources of stress.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell speaks during an event hosted by the Economic Club of Chicago.

Jerome Powell says Trump’s tariffs are a threat to inflation and jobs

The US Federal Reserve Board’s usually cautious chairman says Trump’s tariffs will lead to higher inflation and lower US economic growth. That won’t go down well in the White House.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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BoQ chief executive Patrick Allaway.

Bank boss tips ‘at least two’ rate cuts this year

As market turmoil threatens to hit economic growth, the Reserve Bank can support the economy through rate cuts, says Bank of Queensland.

  • Clancy Yeates
Wall Street is sharply lower on Monday in New York.

Trump has successfully blown up the global trading system

The volatility so far this month might be just a reaction to Trump’s tariffs. It might also reflect a structural threat.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump’s tariff policies have sent markets on a roller coast ride.

Cheaper fuel? Five ways the market meltdown affects you

Super balances, home loan repayments and the price of petrol could all be affected by the recent mayhem on financial markets.

  • Clancy Yeates

Bullock hoses down hopes of deep interest rate cuts after Trump upheaval

Expectations of deep cuts in official interest rates to protect the economy from the global tariff war are growing, but the Reserve Bank governor is cautious.

  • Shane Wright

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