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Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2006
... prices of commodities, robust domestic spending growth, buoyant business confidence and investment and strengthening credit growth. This week rate hike speculation will continue as financial markets receive updates on domestic wage inflation. The Australian ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2006
... prices of commodities, robust domestic spending growth, buoyant business confidence and investment and strengthening credit growth. According to RBA chairman, Ian Macfarlane, "These domestic and international trends have added to inflationary pressures ...

Higher interest rates ahead

... "For now the Reserve Bank has modestly turned the vice for borrowers and consumers and this should suffice provided credit growth continues to moderate, wage pressure remains modest and in line with underlying productivity growth and capacity constrains ...

ANZ sticks to earnings forecasts

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2004
... pressure on margins. ANZ chairman Charles Goode also said there was likely to be some further easing in overall credit growth in Australia and an easing in housing construction. Goode said while ANZ's underlying performance was likely to be good in the ...

Aust financial system remains in good shape: RBA

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2004
... notable development over the course of 2004 has been a turnaround in the housing market and a slowing in household credit growth," the RBA said. After house prices increased by around 20% in 2003, and at an average annual rate of 13% over the previous ...

RBA says surprising if interest rates do not have to rise again

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2004
... has passed its low point, underlying inflation would be on the rise by the end of the year, the pace of household credit growth remain unsustainable, but the domestic housing market was no longer overheated.

Consumer inflationary expectations rise sharply in April

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2004
... developments pointing to waning inflationary pressures, in particular, evidence of a slowing in domestic demand and credit growth, the ongoing strength of the Australian dollar and clear signs of slowdown in the housing market. "These developments will ...

Housing credit growth sustainable, but will ease: Macquarie

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2004
Strong housing credit growth in Australia has been a boon for financial institutions but it has raised the question of whether the current levels are sustainable. A recent report by Macquarie Research Economics has found the present level of lending ...

Westpac comfortable with market expectations

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2004
... the same period a year earlier. Chief executive David Morgan said that recent trends in Australian and New Zealand credit growth were "not inconsistent" with Westpac's own numbers with net loan and acceptances since September 2003 up 5% to the end of ...

Credit binge continues as RBA considers rate rise

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2004
... January, just a tick below the 1.4% it averaged through the second half of last year when rates were pushed up. Annual credit growth is now at 15.7%. It is the highest level since the heady days of the late 1980s when credit growth was rampant. Of most ...