Australia & New Zealand Rapid Response Australia Monthly Household Spending Indicator (Oct. 25) 4th December 2025 · 2 mins read
RBA Watch RBA will remain on hold for the foreseeable future With inflation showing signs of persistence, activity recovering, and the labour market holding its own, the Reserve Bank of Australia is likely to deliver a hawkish hold at its meeting next week... 3rd December 2025 · 7 mins read
Australia & New Zealand Rapid Response Australia GDP (Q3 2025) Although activity lost a bit of momentum last quarter, we suspect growth will hover at around its trend rate in the year ahead. The upshot is that, although the RBA won’t cut rates any further, we... 3rd December 2025 · 2 mins read
Commodities Update New Simandou supply will sink iron ore prices Against the backdrop of weakening demand, the ramp-up in iron ore supply from the Simandou mine in Guinea is a key driver of our below-consensus view that iron ore prices will fall sharply over the... 2nd December 2025 · 4 mins read
APAC Commercial Property Outlook Narrow yield spreads to limit size and speed of the recovery Asia-Pacific property faces a slow, uneven recovery as high risk-free rates and weak growth limit investment demand and therefore, prospects for yield-driven capital gains. Spreads over risk-free... 2nd December 2025 · 18 mins read
Australia & New Zealand Economics Update Are first-time buyers fuelling the house prices rally? The less stringent criteria for accessing the government’s support scheme for first-time home buyers hasn’t noticeably boosted overall housing demand. Indeed, the key constraint remains extremely... 1st December 2025 · 3 mins read
Australia & New Zealand Economics Update Australian housing can’t buck its affordability problem Australia's house price growth picked up further in November and leading indicators suggest the rally has further to run. However, with the RBA unlikely to lower interest rates any further, mortgage... 1st December 2025 · 3 mins read
Australia & New Zealand Economics Weekly RBA is done cutting rates this cycle With underlying inflation continuing to surprise to the upside and domestic demand being propped up by a revival in private investment, we no longer expect the RBA to loosen policy any further... 28th November 2025 · 5 mins read
Australia & New Zealand Rapid Response Australia Consumer Prices (Oct. 2025) With inflationary pressures continuing to strengthen at the start of the quarter, there is little chance that rate cuts will be on the RBA’s agenda anytime soon. 26th November 2025 · 2 mins read
Australia & New Zealand Economics Weekly Inflationary pressures will abate before long The Reserve Bank of Australia continues to equivocate about the outlook for interest rates, given uncertainty over the extent of spare capacity in the economy. However, with wage pressures showing... 21st November 2025 · 5 mins read
Australia & New Zealand Rapid Response Australia Wage Price Index (Q3 2025) Although wage growth in Australia held steady last quarter, underlying momentum appears to have softened a touch. At the margin, that supports our view that the RBA will resume its easing cycle in H2... 19th November 2025 · 2 mins read
APAC Commercial Property Chart Pack APAC Commercial Property Chart Pack (Q4 2025) Asia-Pacific all-property capital value declines slowed further with Q3 down just 1.1% y/y. Yet we expect the recovery to be modest, constrained by high risk-free rates and limited rental growth... 18th November 2025 · 1 min read
Australia & New Zealand Rapid Response RBA Minutes (Nov. 2025) The minutes of the RBA’s November meeting reinforce the notion that the Bank will remain in wait and watch mode in the near term. While we still expect it to cut rates by another 50bp late next year... 18th November 2025 · 2 mins read
Australia & New Zealand Economics Weekly Too soon to call time on the RBA’s easing cycle With economic sentiment improving, employment rebounding, and policymakers sounding increasingly hawkish, markets see only slim chances of further RBA rate cuts. However, we suspect the latest data... 14th November 2025 · 5 mins read
Australia & New Zealand Rapid Response Australia Labour Market (Oct. 2025) The renewed tightening of the labour market last month will feed the Bank’s concerns about elevated capacity pressures and keep rate cuts off the agenda in the near-term. 13th November 2025 · 2 mins read
Australia & New Zealand Economics Weekly Australia poised to reap benefits from AI boom Australian imports of automatic data processing machines are growing at a breakneck pace, driven by the rapid expansion of data centre construction. We believe the AI revolution will continue to... 7th November 2025 · 4 mins read
