05 August 2008 | ALAN MITCHELL, ECONOMICS EDITOR | The Australian Financial Review
The economy is slowing - and pretty sharply too if the recent indicators of demand and activity are any guide.
05 August 2008 | ALAN MITCHELL ECONOMICS EDITOR | The Australian Financial Review
Australia's finance and insurance sector could contract for the first time since the early 1990s as a result of the global industry shake-out and weaker demand for credit in Australia.
05 August 2008 | STEPHEN WYATT SHANGHAI | The Australian Financial Review
Commodity markets are at a tipping point
05 August 2008 | ERIC JOHNSTON | The Australian Financial Review
Australian banks and stockbrokers have so far resisted widespread downsizing, but some believe it might only be a matter of time before the pace of job cuts accelerates as they adjust to the deepening global financial crisis.
05 August 2008 | KATJA BUHRER | The Australian Financial Review
Australia's top economists warn the business investment boom is running out of steam as plummeting confidence, tighter lending conditions and weaker domestic demand force companies to scale back plans.
05 August 2008 | SUE MITCHELL | The Australian Financial Review
Australian retailers are facing the most prolonged period of subdued retail spending growth since the 1991 recession as consumer sentiment plumbs 16-year lows.
05 August 2008 | ADRIAN ROLLINS ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT | The Australian Financial Review
Tight labour market conditions may convince the Reserve Bank of Australia to delay any cut to official interest rates, even as evidence of a significant slowdown in the economy continues to mount.
05 August 2008 | KATJA BUHRER | The Australian Financial Review
Australia's leading economists are betting a terms-of-trade bonanza will keep the Australian dollar nipping at the heels of parity with its US counterpart.
05 August 2008 | ANTHONY HUGHES NEW YORK | The Australian Financial Review
The official stats say the US recession is really just a state of mind, but many battered American consumers feel like the economy is in depression.
05 August 2008 | STEPHEN WYATT SHANGHAI | The Australian Financial Review
In a world economy under threat from a credit crisis in the US, the ongoing strength of the Chinese economy has never been more important to Australia; to its resources boom, its terms of trade, its economic growth and to the Australian dollar.
05 August 2008 | DARREN GIBBS Darren Gibbs is chief economist, Deutsche Bank New Zealand. | The Australian Financial Review
At the beginning of the year, many commentators were asking whether New Zealand would finally slide into recession, dragged down by deliberately tight domestic monetary conditions, additional tightening brought about by tensions in global financial markets, surging energy prices and drought
05 August 2008 | DAVID BASSANESE ECONOMICS COMMENTATOR | The Australian Financial Review
Adding some optimism to the oil price outlook are projections from the International Energy Agency suggesting a belated lift in oil supplies next year.
05 August 2008 | KATRINA NICHOLAS | The Australian Financial Review
At first blush, Japan's economic indicators don't look good.
05 August 2008 | EMMA CONNORS | The Australian Financial Review
Faltering business spending, a locked-down household sector and volatile equity markets have triggered a steep decline in economic growth, ushering in a subdued financial year in which both the Australian dollar and world oil prices are expected to retreat from recent highs.
05 August 2008 | ADRIAN ROLLINS ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT | The Australian Financial Review
The Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to keep official interest rates steady over the next six months, but there is heightened speculation the central bank could move to ease monetary policy earlier amid concerns about deteriorating economic growth.
05 August 2008 | DAVID BASSANESE | The Australian Financial Review
Inflation pressures have probably peaked in Australia, but underlying inflation will stay uncomfortably high in the coming year, according to the latest survey of economists
05 August 2008 | KATRINA NICHOLAS SINGAPORE | The Australian Financial Review
Economic growth across Asia is tipped to continue to decelerate for at least the coming 12 months but pick up in 2010 as the cycle turns.
05 August 2008 | GEOFF KITNEY, EUROPE CORRESPONDENT | The Australian Financial Review
Like a tsunami, earth-shaking events elsewhere have created a wave of pessimism that is threatening to drive the European economy into a much more painful correction than any of the official forecasts thought possible just weeks ago.
05 August 2008 | TONY WALKER | The Australian Financial Review
It has been called the greatest wealth transfer in history - from oil-deficit countries to the oil exporters of the Middle East and Central Asia.
05 August 2008 | ROBERT GUY | The Australian Financial Review
Farmers will be anxiously checking skies in coming weeks as rainfall determines whether the grains industry can meet forecasts for a big rebound in production following last year's drought.
05 August 2008 | ROBERT GUY | The Australian Financial Review
Hero or villain? The commodities boom has delivered a once in a generation windfall for Australia's mining and energy industries but the good fortune has come at the cost of fuelling the resurgent inflation pulsing through the economy.
05 August 2008 | DAVID BASSANESE ECONOMICS COMMENTATOR | The Australian Financial Review
Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens was installed into, arguably, the second most important job in the country on September 18, 2006, after 26 years of diligent climbing up the central bank's bureaucratic ladder.
The US appears to be putting its houses - Fannie and Freddie - in order, writes Glenn Mumford.
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