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RBA rate cut: earlier and more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... sector credit data showing that investor housing finance increased by 0.7% in February and 10.1% from a year ago. Would Gov Glenn go for a hat trick next week with a third surprise? We'll worry about May after Tuesday's decision next week.

Another cut's in the mail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... 5,936.3 points at the end of last week's trade. A go-slow Fed would reduce the risk of derailing the US recovery. As RBA Gov Glenn remarked in his speech before the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia last Friday, "...a healthy US economy should ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... index futures contract was down 14 points at 5,945. In local economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is slated to speak at an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia lunch in Melbourne. No major equities news is ...

Majority slammed (again), equities dunked, A$ fouled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... do is... and slam!" - Kevin Bacon in the 1994 film "The Air Up There"...and slam is what the majority again got from Gov Glenn yesterday when the RBA "judged that, having eased monetary policy at the previous meeting, it was appropriate to hold interest ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... last week), along with disappointing business confidence and disappointing consumer confidence changed all that. Governor Glenn must do more, more so because the A$/US$ has returned to the level it was before 5 February's rate reduction... and then some. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
... bailout after talks overnight collapsed acrimoniously. In local economic news on Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is due to appear before the House of Representatives Economics Committee. In equities news, Newcrest, Sims Metal ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... per cent, a big improvement after a December drop. In local economic news on Monday, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is scheduled to give a speech at the RMB Clearing Bank launch ceremony in Sydney. Meanwhile, the ANZ job advertisements ...

Majority wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... majority - the other 23 (errr, 24 if you include moi) -dismal scientists get it wrong? Me and my 'Taylor Rule'... pffft. "Gov Glenn did it to mess with your forecast", one of my gentle readers, Licerio Lagasca, told me when he rang to discuss the RBA ...

Taylor rules the RBA just right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
Go ahead Glenn, make our day! That's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glenn Stevens to us, thank you very much and the day... the day is the Australian central bank's first meeting for 2015. Despite "Roubini Global urges RBA to hold interest ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... dropped to US$0.7855 - its lowest level since July 2009 - bringing it closer to the US$0.75 mark that would make RBA Governor Glenn Stevens a happy little vegemite... and us too, of course. It's currently trading at US$0.7921, 16.5% below the 2014 peak ...