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Showing 371 - 380 of 2020 results for "RBA"

Brokers warn of looming disaster

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2021
... an increase of $300 is only about a 1% raise to mortgage payments. "1% is not a large increase. It will happen and with the RBA recently deciding not to intervene to stop increasing yields on three-year government bonds, it will likely happen soon," ...

Economic recap: Week to November 12

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2021
Did the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) jump or was pushed by the bond market to scrap its target to keep the April 2024 Australian government bond yield at 10 basis points. The answer to this question becomes important because it would dictate future ...

Economic recap: Week to November 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2021
... Australian government bonds shot up to 2.1% from 1.8% in the previous week on expectations that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would need to abandon its pledge that interest rates wouldn't rise until at least 2024. November was different. Bond ...

Recovery set to slow: OECD

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
... will suddenly reconsider a broad-carbon tax," he said. The survey also called for a review of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) as it has not met inflation targets, which Frydenberg acknowledged and said he would consider. "The key criticism appears ...

Economic recap: Week to September 10

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is concerned but not alarmed at the growing cases of Delta variant infections that's wreaking havoc on the lives and livelihood in Australia's two biggest states - New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria (VIC). ...

ASX posts mixed results

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... listings and issuer services. ASX chief executive Dominic Stevens put the decrease in profit down to Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) policy. "Strong listings and equity market activity, due in part to an ongoing surge in retail trading, were tempered ...

Economic recap: Week to August 13

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2021
... lockdown in Victoria's (VIC) is expected to be extended anew. Private sector economists and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) have already penciled in a contraction in Australian third quarter GDP even before the restrictions were extended and ...

Economic recap: Week to August 6

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
At the conclusion of its August board meeting, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced its decision to: maintain the cash rate target at 10 basis points and the interest rate on Exchange Settlement balances of 0% maintain the target of 10 basis ...

Economic recap: Week to July 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... spiked to 3.8% in June from 1.1% in the March quarter. That's above the upper limit of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) 2%-3% target band. This was the fastest rate of increase in overall consumer prices since the 5.0% year-on-year jump ...

Economic recap: Week to July 23

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021
... by the Delta outbreak rendered the minutes of the RBA's July meeting outdated. The optimistic narrative painted by the RBA at the meeting led markets to anticipate that it would further QE at its November policy review. Not anymore. Offshore, the ...