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Australian lenders lift variable mortgage rates after RBA hike

Live market coverage co-anchored from Hong Kong and New York. Overnight on Wall Street is daytime in Asia. Markets never sleep, and neither does Bloomberg.

Live market coverage co-anchored from Hong Kong and New York. Overnight on Wall Street is daytime in Asia. Markets never sleep, and neither does Bloomberg.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government would consider new policies to combat pressures from rising inflation and interest rates, after the country’s Reserve Bank announced its biggest rate rise since 2000 on Tuesday.

Hong Kong is the world’s most expensive city to live in as an expat for the second year in a row, according to a new study. New York and Geneva took second and third place in the rankings.

Japan’s economy contracted less than initially estimated at the beginning of this year, as consumer spending held up better than expected in the first quarter of the year even as the country suffered from its worst outbreak of the pandemic yet.

Deep fissures revealed in ruling alliance that has lost majority in Knesset...

Proposals include new auctions to decide which trading groups handle retail investors’ orders...