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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... equipment and staff. That would lead to price discounting and lower wages and even lower expected inflation. RBNZ cuts interest rates Low inflation and currency strength were also the main reasons cited by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) for its ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... surprisingly, the increase in consumer confidence was in response to the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) 25 bps cut in interest rates on the 2nd of August - the survey was conducted in the first four days of this month - underscored by the 10.1% jump ...

Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... updates on these two indicators - both stronger than expected - have stoked speculations that the Fed could raise interest rates as early as next month. This was not the case for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) - which given deteriorating fundamentals have to ...

ABA denies precedent for matching RBA cash rates

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... set their interest rate pricing to central bank policy, saying that "we are confident banks can explain why the interest rates they set for borrowers are determined largely by the costs of funds and the pressures of a highly competitive market, not the ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
... of bank funding coming from local deposits it's not hard to see why banks in Australia are desperate to keep the interest rates they pay to their depositors as high as they can even if that means they have cop flak for charging mortgage rates slightly ...

Magellan eyes 'exponential growth' from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... update to investors, Douglass was candid about predictions he made last year for a faster than expected rise in US interest rates which is so far yet to materialise. While it's likely Magellan will prove to be early to the bet rather than wrong, Douglass ...

Is gold on the ceiling for Australian investors?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... portfolios for the next few years." He cites the firm's own research that shows gold has returned about 23% when interest rates are lower than 2% in Australia. At a separate event on Tuesday, Avoca Investment Management portfolio manager John Campbell ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... appear to be significantly inflated. Globally the average level of desired income was 9.1% but with many countries' interest rates at historic lows, plenty of investors look set to be disappointed. "Millennials expectations were even more unrealistic ...

Economic wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... Australia. But the lift in the AUD has made the recovery in construction activity more difficult although record low interest rates have made the cost of borrowing relatively cheap. Nevertheless, Deloitte Access Economics said businesses are mostly choosing ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... up from 72% at end 2007," noted the report as it warned that "worried investors are likely to demand even higher interest rates before purchasing new debt." While the report was not a direct swipe at Australia's poor culture of fiscal discipline, the ...