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RBA measures not solely due to COVID: Treasury

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... number of central banks have suggested that interest rates will not rise for many years." Kennedy said that even when the cash rate returns to neutral levels, monetary policy will have a reduced capacity to respond to negative shocks. "If the neutral ...

Pengana shutters income-focused fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020
... invest in companies with underlying cash earnings yields of at least 6% per annum. The returns have been below the RBA cash rate as well as the ASX 300 Accumulation Index. The fund's one year returns at September end were -13.23% (compares to ASX 300's ...

Chief economist update: RBA does the limbo rock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
... intermediate and long-term interest rates and I quote, The elements of the package are as follows: a reduction in the cash rate target to 0.1 per cent a reduction in the target for the yield on the 3-year Australian Government bond to around 0.1 per ...

RBA cuts rate to new historic low

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has announced another rate cut, bringing the cash rate down to 0.10% for the first time in history. Not only that, but RBA governor Philip Lowe announced a ramp up of quantitative easing measures, bringing in a new ...

The rate that stops the nation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... betting on a rate cut by the Reserve Bank of Australia's board today to a new historical low of 0.10%. Finder's RBA cash rate survey found 67% of economists believe the central bank will cut rates today as it continues to fight the economic effects of ...

Chief economist update: Lowe taking interest rates lower

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... within the 2 to 3% target range. To do this, Lowe reiterated the central bank's forward guidance not to increase "the cash rate for at least three years" and that "we have been considering what more we can do to support jobs, incomes and businesses ...

Chief economist update: Budget me this Batman

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... of its October 6 meeting. It may have disappointed financial markets' expectations for a lowering of the official cash rate from a record low 0.25% to 0.1%, and its three-year bond target and Term Funding Facility (TFF) to below 0.25%, but the Morrison ...

Chief economist update: Australia's third arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... tidings. October 6 is RBA meeting day, the day financial markets expect the Australian central bank to lower the official cash rate from a record low 0.25% to 0.1%, and its three-year bond target and Term Funding Facility (TFF) to below 0.25%. October ...

Chief economist update: October rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... a speech yesterday the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank gave a fairly clear hint that the board is set to cut the cash rate and other key policy rates at its October board meeting..." "The theme is likely to be, as we saw in March, a Team Australia ...

Chief economist update: RBA increases and extends TFF

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept domestic interest rates unchanged - the targets for the official cash rate at 0.25% and the yield on 3-year Australian Government bonds at 25 basis points - at its September meeting, as expected. What came as ...