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Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2006
Financial markets await tonight's unveiling of the country's federal budget and tomorrow night's monetary policy deliberation by the US Federal Reserve. Australian Federal Treasurer Peter Costello will announce his 11th Budget tonight in Canberra where ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2006
... Australia able to more fully justify this week's interest rate hike when it releases its quarterly statement on monetary policy and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases March trade and building approvals data. On the equities front Telecom NZ ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) finally put to rest market speculation over monetary policy by raising the official cash rate by 25 basis points to a five year high of 5.75 per cent. The RBA last lifted interest rates in March 2005. Market expectations ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2006
While Australia anxiously awaits the RBA's decision on monetary policy, strong US economic reports released overnight kept alive expectations that the US Federal Reserve will continue to raise interest rates. Coming on top of the weekend's strong 4.8 ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2006
... Allied and Westfield. Also today the Reserve Bank of Australia board meets in one of its most open deliberations on monetary policy in recent years, with analysts divided about whether or not the central bank should raise rates from the current 5.50 ...

Daily economic update

... petrol on household budgets. Financial markets will see exactly what the RBA thinks of this when it deliberates on monetary policy next week. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) expects no change in interest rates. Ben Ong

Daily economic update

... consumer. Thus, in all likelihood the rise in crude oil prices would produce lower interest rates not tighter monetary policy. Perhaps, data released out of the US overnight give an indication of things to come. The US leading indicator fell by 0.1 per ...

Daily economic update

... increases in commodity prices and the escalation in the price of oil. However, the more important factor for US monetary policy direction is whether these higher headline prices are being passed through into the core inflation measure. Gauging from the ...

Daily Economic Update

... cent. The back-to-back higher-than-expected growth in employment could alter views surrounding the outlook for monetary policy in Australia. Consensus expectations centre on steady interest rates through the remainder of 2006. However, if the slowly ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2006
... the June share price index was 11 points firmer at 5174. On the day the Reserve Bank of Australia announces its monetary policy decision at 0930 AEST, although economists are unanimous in the expectation that interest rates will remain unchanged at 5.50 ...