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Beauty in(foreign) beholders' eyes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... its Statement on Monetary Policy, detailing the reasons for the why and the wherefore it decided to cut the official cash rate by 25 basis points to a record low 2.25%. "...over recent months there have been fewer indications of a near-term strengthening ...

Don't rule out another rate cut: AllianceBernstein

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The Reserve Bank is increasingly likely to defy consensus and cut the official cash rate in 2015, according to global asset manager AllianceBernstein. Consensus expectations of a 2015 rate rise are based on the assumption that a downturn in resources ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... Politburo could tolerate slowing growth) could ease.... and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would keep the official cash rate on ice "until 2016". I placed quotation marks on "until 2016" cause that's one of the main "ifs" Deutsche Bank chief economist ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... where the odds are almost 100% that Gov Glenn would maintain the status quo on monetary policy and keep the official cash rate steady at 2.5%. The big picture shows that nothing much has really changed in the international and domestic economies since ...

mFund attracts 4 new fund managers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... has also added its Smarter Money Active Cash Fund, which targets returns that seek to outperform the RBA's official cash rate by taking advantage of investment opportunities within the Australian cash and fixed-income markets. The funds are offered by ...

The 60-year-old investing idea that keeps on giving

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... Williams said that the interest rate profile of the Fund's assets is only partly sensitive to decreases in the official cash rate. "By targeting large numbers of small exposures to low (loan-to-valuation-ratios) LVR assets, diversified by geography and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... WELLINGTON - New Zealand stocks belied normal market convention by rising after the Reserve Bank lifted the official cash rate and offered no respite to further interest rate hikes. The NZX 50 Index advanced 15.96 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 5195.11. ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... uncle and his dog, when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced that it was doing nothing - it left the official cash rate steady at 2.5%. While the RBA mostly stuck to the commentary template it has used over the past few months - below trend ...

You go NZ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... the record low interest rates developed nations' club - this morning with its decision to raise the country's official cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.75%. This, according to Governor Wheeler's statement, is because, "New Zealand's economic expansion ...

Up, up, prices are up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... three months to December. Dear oh dear! Governor Glen Stevens would have to start thinking about lifting the official cash rate now. That's the knee-jerk reaction in the financial markets, a reaction clearly demonstrated by the appreciation in the Australian ...