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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... National Australia Bank releases its monthly business survey for November. Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens addresses an Australian Business Economist annual forecasting dinner. In other news, the 26th National Chartered Secretaries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... contract was 23 points higher at 4,544. In economic news on Thursday, The Reserve bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens addresses the Melbourne Institute 2009 Economic & Social Outlook Conference dinner on "The Road to Prosperity". The Australian ...

Boiling frog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... This is because Australia is fortunate enough to sit right next to industrialising China. According to RBA Governor Glen Stevens, "Growth in China has been very strong, which is having a significant impact on other economies in the region and on commodity ...

On A$ parity and dashed whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... sensible and prudent to begin to remove it, and increasingly imprudent not to do so." With these words RBA Governor Glen Stevens set speculation afire - speculation that the central bank would raise rates another seven times before 2010 becomes 2011. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... as some investors judged it a good price to sell stocks, and as comments from Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens suggested further rate rises would come sooner rather than later. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed up 28.8 points, or ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... index contract was 49 points higher at 4,886. In economic news on Thursday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens addresses the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy and FINSIA'S public policy breakfast forum in Perth. The RBA releases ...

Our fearful trip is done

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... after US President Abraham Lincoln's assassination on 14 April 1865. Nearly one and half century later, RBA Governor Glen Stevens could have used the same words when he and his Board decided to go back to normality. Setting off to set Australia's monetary ...

Rejoice for rates have risen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
... declared, 'no mas!' 'No mas' need for keeping interest rates at the emergency level and half a century low of 3 per cent. Glen Stevens, the RBA's head honcho, explained that the Board decided to add 25 basis points after the 3 because they deemed that ...

Vote of confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... Who else would you have expected to trigger all this but the moneyman himself, Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glen Stevens. In his testimony before the Australian Parliament, Stevens said, "In the case of monetary policy, the bank has already signalled ...

Depends on the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... investment in the year ahead ignited speculation that the RBA will raise interest rates as early as next month. Governor Stevens' statement saying that cash rates would need to rise from the "emergency" level of 3.0 per cent at some point in time fired ...