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- Property prices
Two big banks have slashed their house price forecasts. The numbers are hair-raising
The signs are difficult to ignore: an avalanche of sellers, increasing levels of stale stock sitting on property portal shelves, and auction clearance rates wallowing around 50 per cent.
- Elizabeth Knight
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- Opinion
- Home loans
The banks’ rivers of gold are facing another blow
On top of a weakening economy and an energy crisis, banking giants now face a softer market in their most important type of lending: mortgages.
- Clancy Yeates
Why anxious Australians are putting cash back in their wallets
After more than two decades of ditching cash, Australians have started putting $20 and $50 notes back in their wallets.
- Shane Wright
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- Workplace
Workplace safety regulator investigating two suicides among NAB staff
The federal workplace health and safety authority is investigating the circumstances surrounding two NAB employees who died by suicide just weeks apart.
- Millie Muroi and Elias Visontay
How Australia’s big banks ran into an even bigger fish
Banks have long accused tech companies of free-riding, but lately those warnings have grown louder. Are banks just trying to protect their patch, or do they have a point?
- Clancy Yeates and David Swan
How banks are only ‘partially’ raising rates for savers
Savers are having to jump through hoops to get the full benefit of recent interest rate rises from the Reserve Bank.
- Millie Muroi
- Opinion
- AI
Many of us pay our bank a ‘lazy tax.’ AI could change this
AI isn’t only a cost-cutting tool for companies to ruthlessly exploit. It could also change the way millions of people behave with their money.
- Clancy Yeates
- Opinion
- Westpac Banking Corporation
How $44 and an ‘ambiguous’ email caused a credit score nightmare
It’s a timely reminder that if something is on your credit report that you think should not be there, say something and keep at it until the matter is resolved.
- Victoria Devine
‘Dark past’: Why the ABC pulled this Australian Story at the last minute
Court records show Ian Williams, who the ABC had profiled for taking on a big bank, was convicted of indecent assault and served jail time in the 1990s.
- Calum Jaspan
Former ANZ chief Shayne Elliott drops legal action against bank
Elliott was denied $13.5 million in bonuses following a string of regulatory woes at the big four giant.
- Clancy Yeates