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Economic roundup

... prices and the deceleration in the property market. Also last week, the Reserve Bank of Australia left the official cash rate unchanged at 5.50 per cent following its Board meeting. It has now been six months since the RBA last lifted interest rates ...

Weekly economic roundup

... the Quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy released by the Australian central bank earlier this week that the official cash rate will remain at 5.5 per cent for the foreseeable future. However, the Governor warned that his statement 'does not mean that ...

Weekly economic roundup

... monetary policy was last week's major market-moving event - or non-event. The Australian central bank left the official cash rate unchanged at 5.5 per cent where they had been since March this year. The RBA does not provide an explanation when it leaves ...

Rates on hold for 11th consecutive month

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2004
The Reserve Bank today left interest rates on hold for the 11th consecutive month. It means the official cash rate will remain at 5.25 per cent. Analysts had been expecting the bank to leave rates unchanged, with most tipping a rise in the first quarter ...

ING winds back exit fees

... an effective annualised rate of 5.75 per cent for the month of July net of fees, 50 basis points above the official cash rate. ING Executive Director Marketing Ross Bowden said ING's mortgage fund management team has been significantly strengthened with ...

RBA to leave rates on hold this month: economists

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2004
... because the timing of the federal election, expected in the latter half of this year, was a complication. The official cash rate currently stands at 5.25%, the RBA having last raised it in two quarter of a percentage point moves in November and December ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2004
... Australia is due to report its monthly decision on interest rates by either adjusting or leaving untouched the official cash rate. Most economists expect no change to the 5.25% official rate.

Aust interest rates on hold in June - RBA

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2004
... interest rates on hold for the sixth month in a row. In a widely-expected move, the central bank announced the official cash rate would remain at 5.25% in June. Interest rates last rose in December 2003 but since then, signs of a housing slowdown, weaker-than-expected ...

New Zealand central bank lifts interest rates 25 basis points

... reasons for not lifting interest rates yesterday and then lifted them anyway, an economist says. Lifting the official cash rate (OCR) by 25 basis points to 5.5% yesterday, RBNZ governor Alan Bollard said he could not rule out further rate rises this ...

Interest rates remain on hold in April

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2004
... fear of higher mortgage repayments after the Reserve Bank of Australia today left interest rates on hold. The official cash rate will remain at 5.25%, where it has been since December, leaving standard variable home loan rates at about 7.07%. Analysts ...