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RBA lifts cash rate to 5.00%

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) 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 ...

Morning market wrap: US stocks head lower on disappointing jobs data

... Australian dollar travelled higher in line with the euro. Local markets are awaiting news whether the Reserve Bank of Australia decided to increase the official cash rate following yesterday's board meeting. The outcome will be known at 09.30 AEST today. ...

Australian business increasingly bullish on 2004

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2003
... Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) rose in October to 57.5 points, up from 53.0 in September. The Reserve Bank of Australia meets today to discuss interest rates and a growing number of economists now believe it will raise rates before Christma ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar sinks below $US0.7000

... in the US overnight as little corporate news is expected here. Most attention will be focused on the Reserve Bank of Australia which meets today to consider whether to push interest rates higher. The bank's board will announce its decision tomorrow. ...

RBA likely to keep interest rates on hold till early 2004: ICAP

Michael Thomas, senior economist at ICAP, has said that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will keep interest rates on a holding pattern till early 2004 and are unlikely to be concerned by inflationary pressures, saying that they are well within control. ...

Inflation may slide below RBA target

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2003
Underlying inflation fell in October and is in danger of sliding below the bottom of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) target of between two and three per cent, an inflation gauge showed today. The TD Securities-Melbourne Institute experimental ...

Midday Market Report: RBA meeting nerves prompts lacklustre trading

... in lacklustre trading dragged down by resource stocks and nervousness over tomorrow's meeting of the Reserve Bank of Australia board. By 1209 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was down 15.3 points at 3256.7, while the all ordinaries slid 13.9 points ...

ABA welcomes RBA credit card reform

... will fall by half," the ABA said. As foreshadowed throughout the two-year consultation phase by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the ABA - amongst many - this reduction will influence retail prices for both merchants and credit cardholders. "Merchants ...

Morning Market Wrap: Caution ahead of data releases

... September, and for the September quarter, are expected from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. As well, the Reserve Bank of Australia is scheduled to publish the commodity price index. Job advertisements numbers for the month of October are expected ...

Nikkei rises in afternoon trade, while domestic bonds close weaker

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2003
... closed weaker today after reacting negatively to comments about a pick up in US economic growth made by Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) official Malcolm Edey. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December 2003 10-year bond futures contract was at 94.305 ...