Tim Toohey News Today

Financial advisers have been warned against advising clients to withdraw superannuation for medical or dental treatments as a new report highlights the long-term effect on balances at retirement.

Price pressures are just not going away, with rising home values and rents a big part of the problem. That has big ramifications for interest rates.

Economists predict the Australian dollar will rise to US70¢ by the end of the year, buoyed by US rate cuts and an unexpectedly strong iron ore price.

This amidst rising mortgage costs and supply concerns, economists say

House prices will rise this year as a property shortage outweighs higher mortgage costs, according to 30 economists surveyed by The Australian Financial Review.

The Australian Financial Review’s survey of 40 economists suggests the local economy will slow to about 1 per cent this year before rebounding in 2025.

There is considerable disquiet over the central bank’s new era of radical disclosure. Will it improve the conduct of monetary policy or make matters worse?

Yarra Capital’s Tim Toohey reckons the lifting of the superannuation guarantee to 12 per cent by 2025 is equivalent to eight 25 basis point rate rises by the RBA.

Investors are braced for a possible oil price spike from Israel’s war with Hamas; Israel’s stock index fell 4.9 per cent, its biggest loss in more than three years; the ASX is poised to rise 0.8 per cent.

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