Housing finance breaks down 11 November 2019 5:01PM Investment dwellings excluding refinancing falters at September 2018 levels, while lending to business falls. read more
Cash distracts banks at profit time 08 November 2019 5:56PM Bank profit season: it's a buffet, with indigestion on the menu in 2019. read more
Orr epic or APRA 06 November 2019 5:21PM New Zealand's Reserve Bank is tearing through APRA and needs to join the Council of Financial Regulators. read more
Let inflation rip 06 November 2019 5:20PM A public good if ever there was one, inflation is the 'go to' remedy but slow to arrive. read more
La Trobe treads Blackstone heights 05 November 2019 5:22PM Getting the prime sub-prime balance right will yield well for Blackstone, the US money manager betting big on La Trobe Financial. read more
10x divides Westpac 05 November 2019 5:21PM A defensive alliance with, and a potential equity investment in, UK unicorn 10x is a sideshow with interest in the Westpac result. read more
Lowe sees little chance of negative rates 30 October 2019 5:14PM It is extraordinarily unlikely that we will see negative interest rates in Australia, RBA governor Philip Lowe said last night. read more
NPP maps its progress 29 October 2019 4:56PM The NPP is picking up speed, with 17 per cent of the population regular users. The NPPA has set out a new investment agenda, but "funding and priority within NPP participants remains challenging". read more
Lame TD rates rev funny money 29 October 2019 4:50PM Rate-hunters may be poking their noses into all sorts of nooks as the slide in interest rates on term deposits makes keeping up with inflation via saving through a bank an unreachable goal. read more
Bank dividends roughen profit season 28 October 2019 5:35PM Bank dividends are in decline and a frozen payout would count as a good outcome for shareholders. But they should be set for disappointment even on that. An unhappy banking profit season will chastise.. read more