Investing
Rates rise again in the US and stocks slump
When the Fed just raised rates by 0.25% the stock market surged. Then too much blabbering took the market down…
Articles by Peter Switzer
Property
Ex-students will join fixed home loan borrowers going over the cliff mid-year
A forgotten group are ex-students straddled with big HECS debts that are building faster than usual because of 7.8% inflation,...
Markets
The cost of retiring is $50,000 dearer. What’s your plan?
What should pre-retirees do to avoid a poverty trap once they leave work for good?
Investing
Will the banking crisis slug stocks again this week?
The US banking crisis has a way to go before we can say it’s all over. I suspect this will...
Tech
We’re under attack from cyber criminals. What are you going to do about this?
All Aussie businesses and consumers have been given another wake-up call about the threat of cybercrime and password security, with...
Markets
The banking crisis has got scarier but how scared should you be?
The bank fear and loathing on global financial markets took a turn for the worst with the huge investment bank...
Markets
Bad banks dying might keep overborrowed homeowners alive!
The current crop of scary bad banking headlines should make the US central bank and our own Reserve Bank think...
Markets
Another dopey US bank fails. Don’t panic.
In a world obsessed with click bait, these US bank failures are big news. The lesson is this: turn off...
Tech
Why did Silicon Valley Bank fail? Could it happen here?
The US banking system is for a country whose national anthem has the words “the land of the free and...
Markets
Working 9 to 5, it’s all takin’ and no givin’
Does Albo really want a four-day week on full pay? For employers, particularly post pandemic, “it’s enough to drive you...