The Latest Breaking News from ANZ

Consumer confidence lifted last week despite expectations of a fifth consecutive interest rate hike in September.

Signs of easing demand for labour seem to have been short-lived, with job ad volumes on the rise again.

Australia's housing market is set to drop 18 per cent, according to one major bank, and new data shows regional areas are joining Sydney and Melbourne in the slide.

Cracks are emerging in key regional property markets, with new data showing the housing downturn has quickly spread beyond major capital cities.

Unfathomably, Australia’s unemployment rate has sunk to 3.5%. Even harder to believe is that it will soon sink lower – perhaps even this week, when the update is released on Thursday – and after that, if the ANZ’s forecasts are correct, dip below the next threshold to two-point-something for the…

Shares in online jobs marketplace Seek have fallen slightly this morning after the company missed profit expectations.

Business confidence rose unexpectedly last month, with firms running close to their limits, even as consumer confidence sank.

Increase puts the banks’ variable interest rates at highest in three years with Westpac and NAB yet to respond to official cash rate hike

With the cost of living soaring and huge demand for labour, low-paid workers are resetting their expectations after years of stagnant wages, Rebecca Macfie reports.