
This year’s Federal Budget provides cost of living relief through tax cuts,
lower power bills, reduced co-payment for medicines and other measures.

Last December the RBA noted that “if the future flow of data continued to evolve in line with or weaker than [RBA] expectations…it would in due course be appropriate to begin relaxing the degree of monetary policy tightness.”

Trump’s tariff war has potentially another 6-9 months to go at least. This poses an ongoing threat to shares, but their relative resilience so far risks emboldening Trump to do even more.

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