Gold Unlocks Another Record High of 2,732

Key insights from the week that was. In Australia, the Monthly CPI Indicator fell 0.3% in October, pulling the annual rate of inflation down from 5.6%yr to 4.9%yr; encouragingly for policy, there were no convincing upside surprises within the detail. Indeed, goods prices – which constitute the bulk of the new information at this point […]

The AUD/USD pair is climbing towards 0.6552 on Monday. The Australian dollar is bouncing back from a 12-week low as investors await Australian inflation data. In the past two weeks, the AUD, in the currency pair with the USD, has fallen more than 3%. This happened amid a global sell-off in risky assets and also […]

Government rebates continue to hold down inflation while personal services inflation did pick up. The Monthly CPI Indicator gained 3.4% in the year to February compared to 3.4%yr in both January and December. The February print was a softer than Westpac’s forecast of 3.8% and the market median forecast of 3.5%yr. Taken at face value, […]