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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... local market would be focused on the Reserve Bank of Australia's decision announcement at 1430 AEST on Tuesday. While the RBA is widely expected to keep the cash rate on hold at 2.75 per cent, Mr Linton said the market would be looking closely at the ...

Bureaucratic processes hinder infrastructure investment: ISN

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... could remove "impediments to the provision of interfund liquidity mechanisms, or providing external facilities such as the RBA currently provides banks." Another obstacle, the report said, are current bid processes. The report put forward alternative ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... Bank of Australia to consider further cuts to official interest rates, Ms Chan said. "It just bodes well I suppose for the RBA to now rethink and have a look," Ms Chan said. In other news, News Corporation said over the weekend that its publishing business ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... the Reserve Bank today saying they're not looking for any sort of real strong growth until later next year," he said. The RBA said the Australian economy was set to grow at a below-average pace in 2013, as mining sector investment peaked. Mining stocks ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... last week's trading fetching only around US$0.9728, down 5.1% from the US$1.0254 it was exchanging at on the day before the RBA chopped interest rates to I don't know how many decades low of 2.75% and down 6.4% since the beginning of the year. It's generally ...

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
Down, down A$ is down. Here's looking at you, parity. Was it the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)'s 25 basis pint reduction in the official cash rate last week and RBA Governor Stevens' promise to do more "should that be necessary to support demand" ...

Rate cuts prompt SMSF cash exodus

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
... accounts are now less attractive to investors versus riskier assets with higher yields. Last week the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut the base rate an additional 25 basis points to record low of 2.75%. AMP SMSF administration head of technical services ...

Investors need income rethink after RBA rate cut

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)'s decision to cut rates may mean that income investors should adopt a changed approach, according to BlackRock head of fixed income Steve Miller. The RBA cut the base rate by 25 basis points to a record low of 2.75% ...

A long two-month wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013

RBA to raise rates in Wayne's world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... there! Thank you very much. If you still haven't made up your mind which way to bet on which way the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would go on interest rates at 230 PM AEST today, stop! I'll spare you the anguish, the anxiety, the suspense. The RBA ...