Matthew Burgess

Treasuries advanced as trading resumed after a long weekend, with a selloff in global equities fuelling demand for haven assets.

US Treasuries led a global bond rally as a selloff in artificial-intelligence shares deepened, spurring demand for haven assets.

Traders were pricing in about a 35% chance the Fed opts for an interest-rate hike later this month after U.S. producer prices rose in September at the fastest pace in more than four years.

The government's new 30 per cent minimum taxation of trusts regime is far more than a change in tax rates. For advisers and their clients, the real consequences may lie in the choices that must be made before 1 July 2028 – or perhaps sooner, writes Matthew Burgess.

Demand at an Australian three-year bond auction surged to the highest since 2018 as traders bet the nation’s central bank is nearing the end if its interest-rate hike cycle.

Treasury and the Federal Government have marketed their minimum tax on trusts as a mechanism to redistribute wealth away from 'the rich' (apparently

US stock futures rose and oil edged lower as traders prepared for a packed week of corporate earnings and Chinese economic data against a backdrop of heightened geopolitical risks.

The euro fell against most of its Group-of-10 peers as escalating tensions in Ukraine and widespread protests in France dented sentiment toward the common currency.

Treasury and the federal government have marketed their minimum tax on trusts as a mechanism to redistribute wealth away from “the rich” (apparently defined as anyone with a trust, or has impure thoughts – that is, thinks about trusts), writes Matthew Burgess.

With the death tax by stealth (i.e., the changes to the testamentary trust regime), the marketing strategists may have slightly misread the situation, writes Matthew Burgess.