Why the election could force higher mortgage rates
Australia’s home owners now have a more pressing concern than the nation’s credit rating | WATCH
Any downgrade for Australia’s biggest lenders would be quickly translated into more expensive mortgages for current and prospective home owners around the country. Don’t say you haven’t been warned...
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Inflation sting tamed as Grange keeps prices flat
The cost-of-living crisis is even hurting the nation’s well-heeled drinkers of luxury wines such as Penfolds Grange, with the winemaker keeping prices unchanged for its flagship wines.
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Adgemis’ great pub blow-up shows not all private credit is the same
Retail investors have more to lose when they buy into the private credit’s safe image and the collapse of Jon Adgemis’ overpriced pub empire has exposed some unpalatable facts.
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Standard and Poor’s made a splash this week by warning about new risks to Australia’s AAA credit rating in the wake of the Federal Election. But the bigger story could be the rating agency’s comments about the big four banks.