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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... will be released, and Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson delivers his post-federal budget speech to economists in Sydney. RBA assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle is scheduled to deliver a speech to a Financial Services Institute of Australia ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... point at 5,460. In economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its latest statement on monetary policy. RBA assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle is scheduled to participate in a panel discussion at a Women in Banking ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... not as surprised as I was? I bet you weren't Virginia, not even your uncle and his dog, when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced that it was doing nothing - it left the official cash rate steady at 2.5%. While the RBA mostly stuck to the commentary ...

Bored to zzz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... course. It's as boring as boring can be. 'Tis the same for today's meeting of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). I can put so many words into this space to try and put reason to what I think the market thinks the Board thinks it would ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... Locally, in economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia monthly board meeting minutes are due to be released, while RBA assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle, is scheduled to speak on the Australian Bond Market at an Economic ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
In big picture terms, not much happened last week. Yes Virginia, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept policy unchanged - as expected. The European Central Bank (ECB) guided forward but also stayed on the sidelines. US non-farm payrolls added another ...

RBA questions super fund infra investment

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has questioned the role of superannuation funds boosting funding for infrastructure investment, saying that it is not appropriate to mandate funds to invest in assets to meet "broader national objectives." In its ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... a week when financial markets play the waiting game. Investors' attention would be on what the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) would do after they met and deliberated on monetary policy this week... and Japan and China ...

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... has climbed to a four-month high (and rising?). The A$ fetched as high as US$0.9246 in overnight trade, reportedly following RBA Governor Glen's remarks at a Credit Suisse conference in Hong Kong that the Australian economy could grow above trend in ...