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IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... must be used to arrest the cycle of falling demand, asset prices, and credit. However, evidence indicates that interest rate cuts are likely to have less of an impact during a financial crisis... fiscal policy can make a significant contribution to reducing ...

Cutting SG a disaster: Keating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... Interest in the variable SG plan was re-awakened last week when banks refused to pass on the cuts in official interest rate cuts despite research showing their funding costs have decreased in recent months, leading to bank's increasing their profitability ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... with US and European markets falling heavily on more negative economic news and uncertainty over aggressive interest rate cuts in Britain. At 0820 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was down 50 points at 3,119. In economic ...

2009: The lost year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... with the $64 million dollar (trillions of dollars in the case of the US) question of whether the aggressive interest rate cuts by central banks around the world and the fiscal stimuli by national governments would eventually succeed in reviving confidence ...

Beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... readying yet another stimulus targeting small Australian businesses. As you read this piece, the RBA's past interest rate cuts are working their way into the system. As you read this piece monetary and fiscal authorities in other parts of the world are ...

No fee rises until 2011: Hostplus

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... guarantee since the start of the global financial crisis. The fund's decision follows last week's 100 basis points interest rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of Australia. David Elia, chief executive of Hostplus, said the decision was unanimously approved ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... basically (on) a lack of bad news than any good news. "Investors remain on the sidelines absorbing yesterday's interest rate cuts and the market should be positive at close." Growth figures released at 1130 AEDT showed the Australian economy expanding ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... interest rate reductions over the past few months. Given the still fragile state of the global economy, more interest rate cuts are sure to follow and the US Federal Reserve is looking likely to adopt a zero interest rate policy. Now wouldn't that be ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... in a week where other central banks were cutting interest rates, the Bank of England (BoE) produced the mother of all rate cuts. Last week central banks in Australia, South Korea, India, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Switzerland and the Eurozone all cut interest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... getting a boost from gains on Wall Street as investors bet that a very weak US jobs report would prompt more interest rate cuts. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares gained 92.55, or 2.17 per cent, to 4,364.96. FRANKFURT - The German DAX gained ...