Stephen Koukoulas
speaker
2,355 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Sep
Stephen Koukoulas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, I think we got back to $100 in the middle of last week.
Then we got back to the mid-80s and the early 90s.
You know, that's extreme volatility in the oil price.
And in many ways, the market's tending not to pay too much attention to it because it's, one, completely unpredictable, two,
Two, the effects are still unclear about what it actually means for the economy other than a very obvious pass-through to the headline CPI.
So that's probably one thing that can still come along.
If we were to get oil back up to $120, $130 a barrel, that would be a problem.
The other one is, again, sort of was alerted to a little bit last week too with the US Federal Reserve keeping interest rates steady.
There were a bit of jitters in the US stock market towards the end of last week about the fact that has the Fed taken its eye off maintaining
uh inflation control and the way that the fed left rates steady last week with u.s inflation still you know it's still high we think we've got an inflation problem in australia so does the u.s we've hiked three times the u.s hasn't um and so that could be the other thing that derails us that we get some sort of um upheaval coming from policy mistakes around the world
Well, petrol has been a swing in the extreme volatility.
We've had a plus 1.6, a minus 1.3, a plus 1.2.
So it's been all over the places.
We've filled up our cars and then locked them in the garage and haven't bought any more petrol for a while.
So that volatility is there.
The trend is slowing a bit if we exclude petrol.
for obvious reasons, the trend in household spending is still edging down.
But as you said, it's really quite resilient.
We are still spending money as householders in the economy.
Now, of course, some of that's on essentials, which by definition are your rent, your food, your groceries, your public transport fares, your insurance.
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