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Inflation no show

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
RBA no go. This is the financial markets' collective verdict following yesterday's surprisingly lower-than-expected Australian inflation figures. I don't know about you but is central banking and monetary policy really as simple as this? I remember ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... points, with 13,804 contracts traded. The minutes of the latest monetary policy meeting of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) on July 6, which were released on Tuesday, show that inflation figures due on July 28 are crucial to the interest rate outlook. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... at 4,325 points, with 3,176 contracts traded. In economics news on Tuesday, the minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) July 6 board meeting were due for release at 1130 AEST. Also, RBA governor Glenn Stevens is listed to speak at the Anika ...

Bored with half-empty glasses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... equity markets rose around one per cent yesterday - give or take a few basis points. While the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to hold fire on interest rates after yesterday's Board meeting because, "Caution in financial markets has been evident ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... Financial Management is scheduled to auction $1 billion of a new June 2016 bond line, of which the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will take-up $50 million. In equities news, Macquarie Telecom opens its MacquarieHUB call centre officially by Communications ...

NAB Super improves insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... being assessed. It is available to employee members for death, permanent and temporary disability, and death cover only for RBA and spouse members. Limits however do apply depending on the type of cover applied for. Members can now apply for terminal ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its June 1 monetary policy meeting and interest rate decision. The RBA also releases credit/debit card data for April. RBA deputy governor Ric Battellino addresses the Financial Executives ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... stronger growth in the economy is putting upward pressure on inflation. The best example of course is Australia. Here, the RBA has started tightening monetary policy way back in October 2009 taking the cash rate from 3 per cent to the current 4.5 per ...

More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... cent annualised rate in the first quarter. Not with activity in its biggest export market - America - also rising. Even the RBA which kept interest rates unchanged at 4.5 per cent yesterday is expected to continue lifting the cash rate when the dust ...

On caution's side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
Careful...careful. All eyes will be on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) today as it deliberates on whether or not to shift interest rates - up or down -- in the country. By merely looking at Australia's domestic economic fundamentals, there are arguments ...