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ASX outage result of process failures, disagreement

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2021
... Australian Securities Exchange has come out relatively unscathed. The joint investigation by ASIC, the Reserve Bank of Australia and IBM into the implementation of the Nasdaq equity market trading system that went live on 16 November 2020 found that ...

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 ...

Top franked stock picks: Morningstar

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2021
Morningstar has released a list of 10 franked income stocks from its Australian and New Zealand coverage which pay very attractive dividends. "The Reserve Bank of Australia's indication that its target cash rate won't increase until at least ...

Economic recap: Week to July 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
The Delta variant outbreak continues to dominate headlines in Australia. Cases of infections in the states of Victoria and South Australia were brought under control and restrictions eased. However, the outbreak in Greater Sydney continued to worsened ...

Top economist Don Stammer to fund UNE scholarship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
... was at that time with OECD in Paris, offering him a senior position in the research department of the Reserve Bank of Australia. The same year, I recruited a talented young graduate of Sydney University, Glenn Stevens," Stammer said. "I had no role in ...

Be ready for negative rates: APRA to ADIs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
Despite the Reserve Bank of Australia being confident it's unlikely interest rates will enter negative territory, APRA is consulting on ADI's preparedness for such an event. Saying the regulator's standpoint does not preclude the possibility of zero ...

Economic recap: Week to July 9

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
At its July 6 meeting, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the cash rate unchanged at 0.1% and retained the April 2024 bond as "the bond for the yield target" - against speculation that it would roll this over to the November 2024 bond. At the ...

Chief economist update: Local and foreign love affair with Australian property

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
The Foreign Investment Review Board's (FIRB) 2019-20 annual report shows that just like Australians, foreigners are also in love with our local property market. The FIRB approved a total of 7496 applications for the purchase of commercial and residential ...