Australian Home Auctions Decline as Rate Hikes Dampen Activity
The number of homes auctioned in Australia dropped over the past week as interest rates at a 15-year high weigh on activity in the housing market.
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The number of homes auctioned in Australia dropped over the past week as interest rates at a 15-year high weigh on activity in the housing market.
法国生活成本抗议演变为部分城市骚乱之际,分析人士警告,法国正逼近债务危机的关键时刻。法国公共债务达创纪录的4万亿美元,占GDP的119%;总理勒科尔努提出将2027年预算赤字从GDP的5.4%降至5%,国民议会将于周二进行首次关键表决。若预算未能通过,法国债务融资成本可能飙升。
A pickup in UK inflation to a nine-month high in data this week is likely to set the stage for key decisions from the upcoming budget to a likely interest-rate increase.
Moody’s Analytics 首席经济学家 Mark Zandi 估算,伊朗战争已使美国家庭平均承担近2000美元等值成本,其中能源价格上涨对应1100美元、利率上涨对应540美元、军事支出对应360美元;按当前燃油价格,能源部分每周增加50美元。文章梳理汽油、柴油、机票、食品、鞋类和运输成本变化,并指出部分企业吸收了更高成本,后续零售价格是否上涨仍受燃油价格及其他因素影响。
加拿大央行行长蒂夫·麦克勒姆表示,越来越多证据显示,油价上涨正支撑加拿大经济增长。他预计加拿大央行本月底将提高通胀预测。
Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee traveled to rural Illinois to hear directly from farmers facing lower crop prices and rising costs for fuel, fertilizer and other inputs. Those conversations offer the Fed a ground-level view of inflation pressures that may emerge before they are fully reflected
There’s a relatively off-the-radar commodity that can provide hints on where the economy is headed — and it’s seen its value drop more than 50% from a record high earlier this year.
Individual investors and second-home buyers accounted for 1 in 5 home purchases in September — the highest share in a little over a year.
美国政府财政2026年的债务利息负担达到创纪录的1万亿美元,占联邦收入的比例持续上升。彭博称,借款累积可能使美国更易受经济冲击。
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美联储最新《消费者财务调查》显示,2022至2025年,75岁及以上家庭的通胀调整后净资产中位数增长约38%,35岁以下家庭则下降23%。同期,老年组净资产中位数升至504,600美元,年轻组降至32,820美元;全美家庭净资产中位数仅增长2%,至215,900美元。
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America is in the middle of a cost of living crisis. The median sale price for a home in 2026 is $410,700, according to the Federal Reserve. Even if you’ve already bought a house, Zillow estimates that the median monthly cost of homeownership is approximately $3,558—with the average American paying
Sky-high oil prices and geopolitical turmoil have made less of a dent than feared … just don’t bank on it to lastInside the vast, glass-walled Queen Sirikit conference centre in Bangkok, the air-conditioned atmosphere was calm as policymakers from more than 100 countries gathered this week for the I
Inflationary pressures are mounting in the US, with fresh consumer and wholesale price data indicating costlier fuel is filtering through into higher prices for other goods and services.
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Britain received unexpected praise for its fiscal restraint at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meetings in Bangkok this week. While welcome, the fund’s support puts an even brighter spotlight on Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey ahead of his debut budget in two weeks’ time.
European Central Bank officials are preparing to finish 2026 with a third interest-rate increase, the last before an increasingly complex backdrop overshadows decisions next year.
IMF负责人表示,伊拉克已向这家总部位于华盛顿的贷款机构寻求一项新项目,她称基金组织打算支持这一请求。
Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa is betting that his Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.’s acquisition of IDBI Bank Ltd. will pay off given India’s growth prospects, the Economic Times reported.
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde stressed the importance of sound public finances when she addressed ministers in charge of budgets from around the world in Thailand.
印度已要求国有燃料零售商停止采购以糖和主要甘蔗原料生产的乙醇。该措施可能有助于抑制糖价。
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Le Minh Hung projected gross domestic product will expand at least 10% next year as he outlined the nation’s economic targets in a speech to parliament.
It can be a lot of detective work, but buy-to-let landlords are increasingly tempted by the promise of higher yields
Last year the tax authority nearly doubled the amount it pulled in from CGT probes compared with 2024-25.
IMF forecasts and the latest GDP data this week painted a picture of unexpected strength
Italy will probably keep adhering to the European Union’s budget discipline even if it reverts to political instability, Morningstar DBRS said.
美国年度预算缺口接近2万亿美元,为五年来最高。
The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead.
Treasury-bill yields have risen sharply as a wave of new issuance tests investor demand, posing a threat to the stability of overnight funding markets.
Tom Porcelli, chief economist at Wells Fargo, says US consumers are "roughed up," but they are still spending. He says wages are struggling, but consumers are still feeling pretty good because a wealth effect is in place. He is on "Bloomberg Money." (Source: Bloomberg)
美国联邦预算赤字在2026财年扩大至近2万亿美元。政府借款需求规模庞大,美国未来几年可能创下债务负担纪录。
Tom Porcelli, chief economist at Wells Fargo, joins Scarlet Fu and Tom Keene on "Bloomberg Money." They discuss the health of the US consumer, the wealth the effect, and his hands-off approach to personal finance. (Source: Bloomberg)
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New research finds debt payments rose far faster than estimated real household income, absorbing about half of a one-earner household's gains.
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This year’s Super El Niño “looms large” over the winter forecast for the United States, forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wrote this week. And for about half of the country, that’s shaping up to make for a wet winter. El Niño is a climate phenomenon defined
Housing and child-rearing costs are driving the increase, while a record number of renters spend more than 30% of their income just to keep a roof overhead.