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Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... so that three of the country's big four banks - ANZ, NAB and Westpac - are predicting not just one but two interest rate cuts this year. The CBA stands alone, expecting no change this year. Perhaps, the CBA's a fool? Then again, it reminds me of the ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... least one more year. And what about Australia? It's bad. So bad that NAB and Westpac among others are predicting two rate cuts this year. Worse, Morgan Stanley forecast growth of only 1.5% this year; the unemployment rate to jump from 6.3% currently ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... So much so, that National Australia Bank has now changed its guesstimate from steady interest rates to two interest rate cuts early next year. Then there's Greece. It's back in the limelight and causing trouble again as usual. The Athens Stock Exchange ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said investors were piling into mining stocks on the expectation that the rate cuts in China would result in Australia's biggest trading partner buying more iron ore. "China's rate cut and Mr Draghi's statements ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... slowdown in China and fiscal tightening will drive Australia's growth as low as 2 per cent next year, allowing interest rate cuts and a 20 per cent devaluation in the Aussie, according to a prestigious global forecaster", reports The Age. "The Australian ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... responding to these developments with the aim of maintaining stable macroeconomic and monetary conditions." And on more rate cuts, GG would "if that really would be helpful" to the economy, but "At the end of the day monetary policy can't be the engine ...

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... Politburo would tell it not to... or heads will roll. MNI reports that, "The Chinese government could add targeted interest rate cuts to the policy mix in the second half of this year as officials try to lower financing costs in the economy, the official ...

Fixed it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... 2.6% in the March quarter. The times, they sure have changed. We've gone from the banks negating the efficacy of RBA rate cuts by not passing them in full to the banks now doing the RBA's job for it.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... The share market has started the week with losses following falls out of the US and expectations there will not be any rate cuts in Australia soon. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the fact that a cut in the cash rate was deemed unlikely ahead of ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
... The share market has started the week with losses following falls out of the US and expectations there will not be any rate cuts in Australia soon. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the fact that a cut in the cash rate was deemed unlikely ahead of ...