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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2004
... Banking stocks should again be in favour after the Reserve Bank of Australia yesterday decided to leave the official cash rate unchanged at 5.25%. In overnight trading on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract slipped nine ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2004
... interest rate steady this month while it waits to see the economic impact of a rise in the Australian dollar. The official cash rate currently stands at 5.25 per cent, having last been lifted by 25 basis points in December. In overnight trading on the ...

Equity investors confident on 2004: survey

... the string of positive economic data and the surprise 50 basis point cumulative increase in the Australian official cash rate since early November has also turned investors considerably more bearish towards fixed interest markets. Of all the participants ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar hits new six-year high

... maintain an accommodative monetary policy for a "considerable period". While the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) official cash rate stands at 5.25 per cent, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) funds rate is a more meagre 1.00 per cent. The decision is expected ...

Major banks begin increasing home loan rates

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2003
... Banking Group Ltd also said it would lift lending rates by 0.25 per cent following this week's rise in the official cash rate by the RBA. ANZ said its standard variable home loan rate would rise by 0.25 per cent to 7.07 per cent for new and existing ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar pushes over 73 US cents

... Sydney today, the RBA announcement will take centre stage. Economists expect the central bank will hike the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 5.25 per cent. In other economic news, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release the latest ...

Housing bubble imbalance could threaten economic growth: TD Securities

... to be correcting, but the RBA is obviously impatient with the speed of the correction and has increased the official cash rate on three occasions, the more recent move earlier this month," said Mr Koukoulas. "The interest rate rises will also work. But ...

Consumer sentiment falls 2% in November: Westpac

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2003
... the survey was conducted on the weekend following the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision to hike the official cash rate 0.25 per cent to 5.00 per cent. "While extensive media reports had warned consumers rates were likely to be increased as early ...

Investors turn bearish on bonds: FSIU

... the FSIU's head of investment research, Dr Rob Pereira. The Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to lift the official cash rate 25 basis points last Wednesday was followed the next day by a similar move from the Bank of England. "It is now only a matter ...

ANZ raises standard variable home loan rate by 0.25 per cent

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2003
... first major Australian bank to lift its home lending rates since the Reserve Bank of Australia increased the official cash rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday. ANZ said the increased rate would be effective from November 14, and applied to both new ...