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Mid-afternoon market wrap: Nikkei eases back as US stocks rise

... by a healthy 1.13% and the Hang Seng increased 0.8%, while the All Ords and FTSE remained steady. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has opted to leave interest rates on hold for the 15 th consecutive month, maintaining the official cash rate stays ...

NAB survey reveals ongoing strength of the non-farm economy

... may still allow a 25 basis point cut around September or October, NAB said. But it also said that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is likely to keep interest rates on hold till mid 2004, when there could be a moderate rise (by around 50 basis points ...

More changes at UBS

... investment bank by Scott Haslem, Mr Haslem has been at UBS for six years, and was previously at the Reserve Bank of Australia for seven years. Recent data released by research group ASSIRT revealed UBSGAM attracted the strongest inflow of funds among ...

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
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said today the argument to cut interest rates had weakened over the last three months, as official figures confirmed the property investment boom showed no signs of slowing. Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Liberal backbencher says RBA may cut rates tomorrow

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2003
... their lowest levels for 20 years and there was the chance they would further drop tomorrow. However, the Reserve Bank of Australia board was not scheduled to meet until early September although it does have the power to announce a rate change at any ...

Home lending boom still strong in June: ABS

... jumping by almost 9% in two months. The sudden revival in lending co-incides with earlier suggestions from Reserve Bank of Australia governor Ian Macfarlane that the bank effectively had a bias towards cutting interest rates. The number of loans for ...

Reserve Bank keeps interest rates on hold for 14th month in a row

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has announced today that the official cash rate would stay at 4.75 per cent, the third longest rates freeze (14 months in a row) since it began announcing rate movements in 1990. Tim Toohey, senior economist at JW ...

Australian economists expect RBA to leave rates unchanged in August

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2003
... to leave interest rates unchanged after its meeting in Sydney today. It has been 426 days since the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) moved the official cash rate from 4.75 per cent and most experts believe Ian Macfarlane and his board can afford to extend ...

Retail turnover rises 1.1% in June: ABS

... jumped by 1.9% in the June quarter. The strength of consumer spending in the quarter may again compel the Reserve Bank of Australia to leave interest rates steady, with the Board due to meet next Tuesday.