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Daily Economic Update

... indications that the labour market has peaked. Overall, the latest car sales figures add to evidence for steady domestic monetary policy. Over the weekend, European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean Claude Trichet stated that the ECB is ready to raise ...

Daily Economic Update

... three-decade lows, contributed to the increase in pay rates in the third quarter. While this appears negative for monetary policy (read higher interest rates), yesterday's more up-to-date wages report released by the Melbourne Institute showed annual ...

Daily Economic Update

... change its deflation fighting policy. The Japanese central bank hinted that it is ready to change the course of monetary policy after it predicted last 31 October that the country's seven-year deflation will end in the year to March. There is also speculation ...

Daily Economic Update

... of weaker-than-expected economic indicators over the past few weeks has shifted the bias of any future move on monetary policy by the RBA from an interest rate hike to a rate cut. In contrast, latest data on New Zealand's labour market have dashed expectations ...

Economic Roundup

... GDP. These soft local indicators support views that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will maintain current monetary policy settings and contrasts with the US Federal Reserve's continuing campaign to remove policy accommodation. The RBA kept interest ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2005
... December share price index contract was steady at 4520. On the day the RBA releases its quarterly statement on monetary policy, with investors looking for any indication of the central bank's concern about inflation or a timetable for any further changes ...

Interest rates stay steady

... following its 1 November Board meeting. The central bank does not issue an accompanying statement when it leaves monetary policy unchanged. The official cash rate has remained at 5.5 per cent since March this year. The Financial Standaad Intelligence ...

Economic Roundup

... name of the game during last week's financial market trading activity. Inflation and its attendant consequence on monetary policy - read higher interest rates -- remained the major cause for recent investor trepidation. But despite rising inflationary ...

Weekly economic roundup

... the NAB business survey and the RBA monthly bulletin should provide some interesting pointers on the economy and monetary policy. Given the current stress on inflation, Wall Street's reaction to the US CPI report for September (released last Friday night ...

Weekly economic roundup

... continue to coast along smoothly - attested by the Reserve Bank of Australia's decision not to adjust current monetary policy settings following its Board meeting last week - investors were concerned with developments in the US where recent reports point ...