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Fair Work Commission grants some workers a 35% pay rise

1 week ago | switzer.com.au | Peter Switzer

It does sound like the kind of pay rise Labor and the unions would engineer three Saturdays before a close election. And a headline like a 35% pay rise sounds like great news to Labor voters and worrying to pro-business Liberal voters. However, there are a few facts to this story that saw Opposition Workplace Relations spokeswoman Michaelia Cash say that the Coalition supported the Commission being the independent body to determine pay and conditions for awards.
Rate cuts are coming and you can thank Trump

1 week ago | switzer.com.au | Peter Switzer

Reading the economic tea leaves and notes from John Kehoe, influential economics editor of the AFR, makes me think a May rate cut is a near past-the-post certainty. Only a bad CPI reading on April 30 could ruin this great news story. Who can we thank for this good news? Try Donald Trump and his less-than-likeable tariffs!Today Kehoe surveys prominent economists and are the main points from the story:The May rate cut looks a certainty.
We can thank Trump tariffs for this hip pocket gain

1 week ago | switzer.com.au | Peter Switzer

The headlines are hailing and cheering lower petrol prices for motorists across the Easter and Anzac holiday weekends, but these are celebrations for a lesser achievement than what lower fuel slugs mean for a bigger picture.
Albo and Dutton promise the house to live in the Lodge

1 week ago | switzer.com.au | Peter Switzer

One thing’s for sure about Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton is that they really want the PM job, and they’re prepared to spend our money to get it!Yep, they’ve been promising big, with serious budget deficit implications. So, who we vote for should factor in who’s more like to be able to pay for their potentially pernicious pledges. Let’s look at these ‘promises’ by starting with Albo’s offerings:Every worker gets a $1,000 standard tax deduction of work-related expenses at a cost of $2.4 billion.
Trump U-turned so why are stocks down today?

2 weeks ago | switzer.com.au | Peter Switzer

It was an historic rally yesterday on the strength of President Donald Trump’s backdown on his reciprocal tariffs, but the economists have done their numbers, and the new figuring says his tax slugs (or tariffs) are still going to be a problem. They’re just not as bad as they looked before his 90-day pause.
Trump U-turns and stocks surge!

2 weeks ago | switzer.com.au | Peter Switzer

The US President has done the greatest U-turn or pivot in the history of financial markets and American history, and the positive impact on financial markets is the biggest I’ve seen in a lifetime of reporting on money matters to the Australian public!Love them or hate them, it was the reactions of financial markets (stocks and bonds) that has taught Donald J. Trump a powerful lesson. And God I’m glad he was smart enough to heed the market’s unignorable messaging.
Trump's Game of Thrones tariff drama slays stocks again

2 weeks ago | switzer.com.au | Peter Switzer

The Trump economic lunacy continued over night with a litany of headlines coming out of the White House that could have made front pages on at least three different newspapers. Let me list them:Trump slams China with a 104% tariff!Elon Musk ridicules Trump trade advisor Navarro!US recession a 40% chance of happening!Unsurprisingly, the Dow Jones has finished in the red, off 320 points after making a bright start to the trading day that followed our market surging yesterday 166 points or 2.27%.
10 ways Trump's tariff madness will directly affect you

2 weeks ago | switzer.com.au | Peter Switzer

This is not a political statement. It is an economic statement — Trump’s tariff tirade is madness, and I’ll answer your top 10 questions to prove that this guy is a threat to your wealth, your super, your job and your business. So, let’s get started in answering the questions I’ve been getting since these over-the-top reciprocal tariffs were revealed on April 2. Will Trump pivot and help the stock market regain its losses? I think he will but I’m not sure how long he’ll wait.
Is this Trump market meltdown the biggest policy mistake in 95 years? Could this lead to a global recession that didn’t have to happen?

2 weeks ago | switzer.com.au | Peter Switzer

While Donald Trump might have some social and even political arguments that sensible people might see some merit in (such as taking on the excessive critics in the cancel culture and the left-wing politicians who specialise in creating policies that the majority see as unreasonable), the President’s economic policies are naïve, opportunistic and wealth-destroying.
Do we really have a big beef with Trump over tariffs?

3 weeks ago | switzer.com.au | Peter Switzer

After listening to President Trump ramble on and outline the guts of his tariffs, I’m confused how I should play stocks. The market indices and share prices of big US stocks are on the slide but out SPI futures tell us that our market will open up 41 points higher at the start. What do these early reaction signs mean? Here’s my best guess — the Trump tariffs aren’t as bad as they could have been for Australia.