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RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... Country' have long been blessed with top-notch monetary policy makers. There has been no recession on the watch of Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens or under his predecessor, Ian Macfarlane, who served from 1996 to 2006. Stevens, though ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... Tuesday night fell $US1.93 to $US94.48 per barrel and the spot price of gold was down $US3.82 to $US1,295.38. Locally, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens will give testimony to the House of Representatives economics committee. And there ...

Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... sitting of Parliament. It may be a coincidence, but the Senator's policy suggestion came just a few weeks after the Reserve Bank of Australia issued a discussion paper that presented research that argued Australian housing is overvalued and given expectations ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was up 25 points at 5,483. In local economic news on Thursday, Reserve Bank of Australia senior manager of payments policy department Jenny Hancock attends Risk Australia Conference in Sydney. ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... September share price index futures contract was down 23 points at 5,426. Locally, in economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its Statement on Monetary Policy and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases June housing finance ...

CBA appoints international experts to oversee advice program

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... (APRA). He was also a part of the Wallis Inquiry into the Australian financial system and had a 20 year career with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). Promontory Financial Group chief executive officer Eugene Ludwig and vice chair of the group's advisory ...

RBA leaves interest rates on hold

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
The Reserve Bank has again kept the cash rate unchanged, and is likely to do so for some time yet. The cash rate has now been at a record low of 2.5 per cent for 12 months. In a statement accompanying the RBA's August rate decision, governor Glenn Stevens ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
The local sharemarket has opened flat ahead of the Reserve Bank's interest rate announcement and the full swing of earnings season. All 15 economists surveyed by AAP predict the RBA will leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.5 per cent on Tuesday. But ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... September share price index futures contract was up three points at 5,487. Locally, in economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its monthly board meeting and makes its interest rate decision. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... shed 1.53 per cent while London's benchmark FTSE 100 index fall 0.64 per cent In local economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the index of commodity prices for July, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases June quarter ...