This article uses information from the latest Household Expenditure Survey to examine recent expenditure patterns. The period between 2003/04 and 2009/10 was characterised by strong real household income growth and falling relative prices of goods due to the appreciating exchange rate. These...

Liquid assets with low credit and market risk have a number of uses in financial markets, such as providing collateral against short-term funding or credit exposures that arise between counterparties to financial transactions. This article examines the existing sources of demand for Australian...

The introduction of electronic broking to the foreign exchange market in the early 1990s signalled the start of a process of innovation that has driven significant change. This article looks at the evolution of electronic trading in the global foreign exchange market and focuses on its impact on...