Economy Archive
Strategic Financial Advice
A concise wrap of global and Australian conditions in November 2025, including growth, inflation, central bank signals, currencies and equity market moves.
Strategic Financial Advice
July was a relatively uneventful month in financial markets and volatility remained low. Risk assets continued to perform well despite a sharp increase in the oil price. In fact July was the best month for oil since January 2022.
Financial Updates
The 2022 Luna New Year, Year of the Tiger, is courage and bravery. It is a year to drive out evil and one of momentum and change. The message; walk boldly with courage. And it seems the Reserve Bank Governor is aligned with this sentiment.
Strategic Financial Advice
Investors with long memories – or a good education – will recall the bad old days when inflation was the economic bogeyman. It broke Germany’s Weimar Republic in the 1930s and nearly cratered America’s economy in the 1970s.
Strategic Financial Advice
Read the latest monthly market update – covering economic and investment market issues from around the world, as well as locally.
Strategic Financial Advice
"In America, anyone can become President. That's the problem." George Carlin.
The political circus has ended, the campaign tent is now folded. Americans have elected Donald Trump as their new President. President Trump will lead an economy with deep problems and mixed prospects. The narrow victory for President Trump reveals a divided nation.