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Afternoon market wrap: Shares, bonds close down

... Meanwhile, the Australian bond market closed slightly weaker today, taking the no surprises quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) in its stride. At the close of local trade the yield on the Commonwealth Government ...

Investors turn bearish on bonds: FSIU

... from 49% to 34%. "More investment professionals are expecting higher rates as central banks begin to tighten the monetary policy reins given the strength of the current economic recovery," said the FSIU's head of investment research, Dr Rob Pereira. ...

Midday market wrap: Shares, bonds both ease on stronger US data

... Australian bond market also opened weaker in line with US Treasuries today and was now being driven by central bank monetary policy movements, analysts said. In early trade the yield on the Commonwealth Government May 2013 bond was at 5.950 per cent ...

RBA says little to be gained by delaying rise in interest rates

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2003
... rates, given the stronger growth prospects both domestically and abroad. The RBA said in its November Statement on Monetary Policy that the general macroeconomic case to move rates was "quite clear and there was little to be gained by delaying action". ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar opens weaker

... double forecasts. In Sydney today, investors will look to the Reserve Bank of Australia's quarterly statement on monetary policy, while the Australian Bureau of Statistics will publish its September housing finance data. On Friday, the Australian share ...

RBA decision takes economists by surprise

... Morris confirmed that the RBA is essentially embarked on a policy of containing expansionary policy and tightening monetary policy as a whole. ICAP chief economist Dr Ric Simes confirmed the RBA announcement as being a surprise. "I think the RBA got ...

RBA lifts cash rate to 5.00%

... today raised the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 5.00 per cent. The move is the RBA's first shift in monetary policy for 17 months. In a statement, the central bank said interest rates had been set low in response to weak world conditions, low ...

Latest US GDP growth could herald gains in equities in the short-run

... may not be as great as Fed officials believe. Further, as the amount of slack in the US economy diminishes, US monetary policy is actually becoming "passively" easier. State Street have said that nominal GDP grew 5.1% in y/y in the third quarter of 2003 ...

Policy reflation likely for the US

... Australian dollar will continue to appreciate against the US dollar into the near future. "We have argued that monetary policy developments have played a key role in the dollar's trend in the dollar's trend in the post-bubble period," said Mr Kalirai. ...

RBA expected to hold rates, but hikes will come

... Citigroup director and strategist Stephen Halmarick agreed, saying he thought the RBA's November 10 statement on monetary policy would be used to move to a tightening bias ahead of 50-75 basis points worth of hikes in early 2004. (with AAP)