Jens Meyer

Jens is the markets and breaking news editor, based in Sydney.

The debate that stopped the trading?

Markets Live: Clinton 1 - Trump 0

Markets have wasted no time declaring Hillary Clinton the winner of the first debate, as the Mexican peso leaps and the ASX trims losses.

Having so closely linked the RBA's easing cycle to the weakness in the terms of trade (and earlier decline in mining ...

Did the RBA signal the end of rate cuts?

Well, not exactly no-one. Goldman Sachs chief economist Tim Toohey reckons the speech RBA assistant governor Chris Kent delivered on Tuesday amounts to an explicit shift to a neutral policy stance.