Focus on keeping energy costs low: APA Group CEO
Adam Watson is focused on doing everything he can to keep energy costs low, amid an uncertain environment.
Economics
Put ‘total tax’ reform on the agenda: IAG CEO
Insurance boss Nick Hawkins says there is plenty of potential ahead in making Australia’s tax system fit for a modern economy.
Entrepreneurs create our future growth: Zeller CEO
Ben Pfisterer who heads up payments platform says now is the time to double down and invest.
Impending merger rule changes to bring on a flurry of deals
The impending tightening of the ACCC’s merger approval regime will trigger the fast-tracking of deal announcements in 2025, says Rothschild & Co Australia.
Epic inflation fight ‘far from over’
The nation’s biggest poll of business leaders comes with a pointed warning for both sides of politics heading into an election year.
Jobs spurt sours rate relief hopes
A surprise drop in the unemployment rate to 3.9 per cent in November has poured cold water on the prospect of a summer interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank.
RBA committed to cash, lower surcharges
The central bank has reinforced its commitment to lowering merchant card payment costs and ensuring that cash remains an affordable and viable means of payment for Australians.
ASX-listed CFOs see economy at turning point: Deloitte
Finance chiefs at Australia’s largest listed companies are confident that the economy will turn around in 2025 on expectations of easing inflation and households deploying their cash savings.
LNG industry on alert for export curbs
Australia’s LNG industry is on edge that the federal government may use emergency powers to limit exports as the competition regulator prepares to reveal tight supplies for winter 2025.
Australia ‘well placed’ to avoid Trump tariff impact
Australia has an advantage in weathering the expected upending of US trade policy under Donald Trump, Reserve Bank deputy governor Andrew Hauser has said.
Get ready for $650bn borrowing splurge
A four-year borrowing spree by governments is expected to reach levels typically experienced during economic crises, Westpac says.
RBA gives Labor reason to hope for a pre-poll rate cut
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock says she is more confident that inflation is easing, abandoning her previous threat of ratcheting up interest rates even higher.
Beginning of the end of an independent central bank
If Labor ‘friends’ dominate the new board, there will be real questions over the objectivity of the decision-making. This is particularly important because the non-bank appointees will make up most of the board.
RBA’s softened tone raises prospect of February rate cut
The RBA says its board members are ‘gaining some confidence that inflation is moving sustainably towards target’.
VIPs enlist in fix-economy army
Visy chair Anthony Pratt, Herald & Weekly Times chair Penny Fowler and AFL CEO Andrew Dillon will form part of the newly established Victorian Premier’s Business Council.
RBA withdraws threat of another rate hike
The inflation dragon has not been slayed but pain relief for borrowers may come before next year’s federal poll.
ACTU demands action on rates, RBA ‘getting it wrong on jobs’
As Sally McManus heaps pressure on Michele Bullock to deliver relief, Australia’s top labour market expert warns the Reserve Bank is overestimating the strength of the country’s jobs market.
One in three Aussie jobs ‘at serious risk in AI revolution’
More than 30 per cent of the workforce could be disrupted by the rapid uptake of artificial intelligence over the next five years without policy intervention, a new report warns.
Weaker growth paves way for a February rate cut
Weaker than expected economic growth has triggered a reassessment in financial markets of the likely timing of the Reserve Bank starting to ease monetary policy.
ACTU to turn heat up on RBA’s Bullock
RBA governor Michele Bullock is set to stare down growing demands for interest rate relief, as the union movement on Monday will move to ratchet up pressure on the central bank which remains at the back of pack in the global rush to cut rates.
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