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Home buyers could have hundreds of dollars extra in their pockets in time for Christmas as expectations grow of a string of interest rate cuts.

Reserve Bank could deliver shoppers plenty of pre-Christmas cheer

The expectation of an interest rate cut next month has soared in recent days. With more predicted cuts to follow, that could mean lots of Christmas cheer for the nation’s shoppers.

  • Shane Wright

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RBA governor Michele Bullock is widely expected to lower the cash rate on Tuesday.

Interest rate cut was nearly bigger as instability fears linger

The Reserve Bank has cut the official interest rate for the second time this year against a backdrop of what further actions by Donald Trump might bring.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock.

The RBA’s war on inflation inflicts $290 billion bill on home buyers

Home buyers and investors have paid more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in interest to help bring down inflation. They may get another rate cut this week.

  • Shane Wright
The Reserve Bank is worried wage rises and inflation could follow the same path they did in the 1970s.

The Reserve Bank is spooked by pay rises. Here’s why it can – and should – relax

Wage growth is no longer the threat it used to be.

  • Millie Muroi
Brace yourself for the tariff storm: President Donald Trump holds his MAGA hat in the wind while disembarking Air Force One last month.

US inflation is the calm before Trump’s tariff storm

The US inflation rate was edging towards the Federal Reserve’s target range. Then Donald Trump launched his trade war on the rest of the world.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn

CBA boss tips interest rate cut next week; bank reports $2.6b profit

As a key Reserve Bank board meeting looms, chief executive Matt Comyn says Australia is in a good position to handle uncertainty in the world economy.

  • Clancy Yeates
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President Donald Trump says China has agreed to fully open its economy.

Don’t break out the champagne: The trade war truce is just a reprieve

Markets are celebrating the outcome of the weekend’s trade negotiations between the US and China, but the 90-day pause buys only time, not a resolution.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump’s trade wars

The Trump iceberg has struck China. America is bracing for it

China is already feeling the effects of Donald Trump’s trade war and has been forced to take action. It is a different story in the US.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump at a cabinet meeting this week. Despite big disruption from his administration, markets are back to where they started.

Trump says Biden is to blame for America’s shrinking economy. The data says otherwise

The US president blames his predecessor for the sharemarket slump and the fall in America’s GDP. In reality, it’s the “dumbest trade war in history” that’s responsible.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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

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