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RBA mixes its game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... know what I was thinking then I was invincible." Bjorn Borg The Australian Open might be finished but yesterday we had the RBA mixing its play to win game, set and match. The Australian central bank kept the official cash rate unchanged at 3.75 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... gold mine. The mining and gold sectors led the Australian share market higher on Tuesday after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) unexpectedly left the cash rate unchanged at 3.75 per cent. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 81.2 points, or 1.79 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... March share price index contract was 46 points higher at 4,555. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will hold its first monthly board meeting for 2010 to consider official interest rates. It is to announce its decision at ...

HSBC Bank hires Contango director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. She has also held roles at BHP, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Rothschild Australia Asset Management and Commonwealth Funds Management. Wong will be the chief executive of the Hongkong ...

One down, more to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... Street could resume its rally - the Fed is now confident that recovery is assured. Remember what happened to Australia when the RBA first started raising interest rates? But it was not to be...and rightly so. Not with US unemployment still at double-digits ...

Stimulexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... has already started to guide interest rates higher and lifted its bank's required reserves. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has already done a hat trick on the official cash rate and it's not finished yet. The Fed is scheduled to stop buying mortgaged-back ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... inflation pressure. Australia's problem is that the pro-active and aggressive monetary response by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Rudd government's fiscal spending have worked too well in shielding the domestic economy from the ravages of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... Apollo Gas Ltd lists on the Australian Securities Exchange at 1100 AEDT. In economics news, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) releases the minutes of its December 1 board meeting at 1130 AEDT. The Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes dwelling ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... on fiscal stimulus. National Australia Bank releases its monthly business survey for November. Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens addresses an Australian Business Economist annual forecasting dinner. In other news, the 26th National ...

Cash is king in Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009