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Home values look set to rise.

What property prices will do as interest rates fall

NAB this week forecast the official cash rate to fall as low as 2.6 per cent within the next 12 months, the most bullish of the big four.

  • Alice Uribe and Elizabeth Redman

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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
National Australia Bank chief executive Andrew Irvine has warned that global economic uncertainty sparked by the Trump administration’s policies is likely to continue for some time,

‘Single biggest issue’: Bank boss says Labor needs to deliver on housing

“Economics 101” suggests that if demand for homes increases and supply doesn’t, it will simply result in higher home prices, NAB boss Andrew Irvine says.

  • Clancy Yeates
Reserve Bank Meeting 1 April

Buying a house is hard now but it could get much worse

We could easily see housing prices rise into double-digit territory by year’s end if the NAB’s rate call is correct.

  • Elizabeth Knight
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly slammed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

The Fed is waiting for the fog of Trump’s trade war to lift

The outcome of the rate-setting meeting is predictable because the outlook for the US economy is so unpredictable, thanks to the chaos from Trump’s trade war.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Had the Coalition succeeded in getting Labor sacked, Labor would rightly have blamed the Reserve Bank’s tardiness in cutting interest rates for that sacking, and its side of politics would have gone for at least a decade seeing the central bank as the enemy.

Dutton’s election campaign rout lets RBA off the hook

Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock must be breathing a quiet sigh of relief now the Albanese government has been triumphantly returned to office.

  • Ross Gittins
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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
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

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