Perth will lead the country for construction cost growth this year as labour shortages increasingly overtake materials costs as the main driver of inflation, consultancy Arcadis says in its latest forecast. Building tender prices in […]
House prices in some of the most exclusive housing markets in the country have fallen sharply in the first three months of the year as worsening affordability weighed on the demand, data from CoreLogic shows. […]
Oil advanced for a second day as the US and Europe prepared to impose a fresh wave of sanctions on Russia for alleged atrocities committed by its forces against civilians in Ukraine. West Texas Intermediate […]
Consumer confidence was steady last week, but inflation expectations continued to surge, according to the latest ANZ-Roy Morgan survey. Weekly inflation expectations rose 0.4 percentage points to 6.4 per cent last week, the highest weekly […]
The Reserve Bank faces fresh pressure to begin increasing interest rates from spending measures planned in Tuesday’s federal budget, which could add fuel to inflation, economists have warned. Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is set to […]
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