Tag: Inflation

Will U.S style inflation reach Australia’s shores? How inflation impacts businesses and how SMEs can prepare.

A weakened Australian Dollar may spell bad news for Australia’s economic recovery.

The report comes only a month after global food prices reached a 10-year high.

The U.S records worst inflation in more than three decades. Is Australia next?

Australian interest rate markets remain poised for a far more aggressive hike path than the Reserve Bank (RBA) expects, report says

The price of electricity increased 8.9% last quarter, according to the latest ABS Consumer Price Index (CPI), prompting the nation’s peak employer body to warn that businesses are at ‘breaking point’.  The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.6 per cent in the September quarter 2017, with the most significant price rises that quarter being electricity (+8.9%), […]

Proposed tax rate changes, which would affect approximately 100,000 small businesses, will deliver the best “bang for buck” for the economy,  accounting software provider MYOB and the Council of Small Business Australia said in a joint statement. The statement was in response to Labor’s opposition to the Federal Government’s proposal to increase the eligibility threshold for paying the lower […]

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has left interest rates unchanged at 3.25 percent, citing a rise in inflation as a driving factor behind its decision.

The Reserve Bank has again left the official cash rate on hold at 3.5 percent, citing on trend inflation and growth as well as a rise in the number of businesses applying for credit.

While employees in many European countries hold little hope of seeing their salaries rise to match inflation, research has found Australians and workers in the Asia Pacific are feeling optimistic when it comes to their pay packet.