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No board meeting necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... November 2014's easing when the PBOC cut the one-year benchmark lending rate from 5.9% to 5.6%. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) followed with its own - but not the 'kinder surprise' version - putting a stay on interest rates against majority expectations ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... hold at a record low of 2.25 per cent, Mr Lucas said. "It's not normal that you see the ASX move as hard as it did after an RBA meeting," he said. "It just shows you how strong the yield trade was, and investors pressed the sell button when they didn't ...

Majority slammed (again), equities dunked, A$ fouled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... Kevin Bacon in the 1994 film "The Air Up There"...and slam is what the majority again got from Gov Glenn yesterday when the RBA "judged that, having eased monetary policy at the previous meeting, it was appropriate to hold interest rates steady for the ...

I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... stock market is beaming with gleeful anticipation of a birth of another child. It's coming! It's coming! Expectations that the RBA would deliver another 25 bps cut in the official cash rate - taking it down to a record low 2.0% from the previous record ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... another rate cut is coming. Bloomberg's survey shows (tada!) 18 out of 29 economists expect the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to follow-up February's 25 bps reduction in the official cash rate to 2.25% with another 25 bps cut. Quite a turnaround from ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... growing now at a respectable 3.0 per cent pace or better. In local economic news on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) releases February's index of commodity prices and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases its business indicators for ...

Tme to get fiscal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... a no show. While the ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence increased by 0.9% in the week ended 22 February (a week after the RBA rate cut), it remains lower than its level six months ago and 2.0% below that of 12 months prior. Seems like the RBA rate cut ...

Altair AM signs equity mandates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... economist, wrote in his February briefing the likelihood of another 25bp rate cut following this month's surprise rate cut. "The RBA recognises a weaker growth outlook than it was forecasting in late 2014. It wants to provide more monetary policy support ...

Beauty in(foreign) beholders' eyes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
Earlier this month, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) released its Statement on Monetary Policy, detailing the reasons for the why and the wherefore it decided to cut the official cash rate by 25 basis points to a record low 2.25%. "...over recent ...

Twin Peaks model optimal for financial stability

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
... Regulation (CIFR). The model, which pivots on regulation of financial services by independent entities - in Australia's case, the RBA, APRA and ASIC - has been credited for preventing Australia from feeling the worst of the GFC. CIFR's research suggests ...