Cecile Lefort

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Cecile Lefort |Johnny Shapiro

May 20, 2025 – 6.35pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? An unexpected change in tone from Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock triggered a dramatic late afternoon plunge in bond yields after the central bank revealed it was less worried about inflation than it was about a sharp slowdown in the global economy.

1 month ago | afr.com | Simon Evans |Cecile Lefort

Apr 28, 2025 – 1.10pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Building products group James Hardie has moved to quell investor anger over its controversial $14 billion buyout of Azek in the United States by stating it would not seek a foreign exempt listing from Australia.

1 month ago | afr.com | Andrew Tillett |Johnny Shapiro |Cecile Lefort

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is being urged to hold the line on offering concessions to Donald Trump in return for tariff relief to avoid a flood of similar demands from other trading partners as China fired the latest shot in the rapidly escalating global trade war late Friday. China’s Finance Ministry said it would raise tariffs on US goods from 84 per cent to 125 per cent from Saturday after Trump confirmed the cumulative duties on Chinese goods had hit 145 per cent. Loading...

1 month ago | afr.com | Cecile Lefort |Johnny Shapiro

US President Donald Trump’s pause on trade tariffs, failed to stem a historic retreat of global investors from the United States bond market foreshadowing further falls in asset prices and rising borrowing costs, across the world including Australia.

2 months ago | afr.com | Johnny Shapiro |Cecile Lefort

Apr 9, 2025 – 7.58pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Investors have aggressively dumped long-term US government bonds in a historic loss of faith in the financial market’s most coveted safe haven asset amid fears inflation caused by a global trade war could prevent interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.