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Morning market wrap: US stocks jump after Fed leaves rates unchanged

... Federal Reserve's decision to leave short-term interest rates unchanged and growing confidence among investors monetary policy will remain accommodative for the foreseeable future. In announcing the decision, the Fed noted the persistent weakness in ...

FOMC to meet next week, unlikely to change interest rates: ICAP

... Federal Reserve had always waited for employment to return to pre-recession levels before starting to remove the monetary policy stimulus. On this basis, the current gap is so large that it would take 18 months of average growth - defined as sufficient ...

House price declines now the major risk to growth: RBA

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) appears to have shifted back to a neutral bias for monetary policy, following the release today of the bank's quarterly Statement on Monetary policy. The two risks that prompted the board to adopt an easing bias in ...

Property investment loans rise again in June: ABS

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2003
... rates had remained on hold because the case to cut had weakened since June. However, in its August Statement on Monetary Policy, the central bank said rates could still be cut if consideration of the risks required it. It also said the inflation outlook ...

Afternoon market wrap: Australian shares end square

... AMP also continues to climb back after the battering it took early last week. The RBA's quarterly statement on monetary policy saw bond yields jump higher, as the market continued to unwind earlier expectations of a rate cut. The yield on the benchmark ...

US economic growth likely, but less than Fed expectations: ICAP

... this will generate increasingly stronger growth in the second half of 2003 and in 2004. ICAP said that fiscal and monetary policy stimulus will be gradually withdrawn from next year and interest rates will rise and stocks are unlikely to duplicate the ...

Costello reappoints Macfarlane RBA governor

... well as governor of the Reserve Bank," Mr Costello said. "It has been a period of great success in the conduct of monetary policy and economic policy. I wish him all the best in his reappointment." Mr Costello said the government had reaffirmed the existing ...

Local rate cut still possible: ICAP

... appreciation in its currency," ICAP says. "These conditions would argue for steady or, preferably, slightly easier monetary policy." By mid-2004, the broker believes the RBA could be poised to remove some of the monetary stimulus.

NAB Looking For Rate Cuts

... "the Governor has signalled he is about to cut rates - and will be doing so soon. Forgetting about whether or not monetary policy is the appropriate instrument to be used in current circumstances, it is clear the Bank is about to move. We now expect ...

RBA hints at interest rate cut due to international downturn

... an examination of the domestic economy leads us to conclude that there is little or no evidence to suggest that monetary policy has been too tight, or is currently exerting a constricting influence on domestic demand," Macfarlane said. "But that is only ...