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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... 2008, during the global financial crisis. Investors are speculating that the Reserve Bank of Australia will cut the cash rate to a new record low of 2.00 per cent in an announcement on Tuesday afternoon. Rate cut expectations have boosted the major banks. ...

I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... another child. It's coming! It's coming! Expectations that the RBA would deliver another 25 bps cut in the official cash rate - taking it down to a record low 2.0% from the previous record low - has the domestic equity market jumping with joy, sending ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... real powerful ammunition for the market." The banks may be benefiting from expectations the Reserve Bank will cut the cash rate again when it meets on Tuesday, he said. The surprise rate cut in China on the weekend was also seen as a positive for miners ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... of 29 economists expect the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to follow-up February's 25 bps reduction in the official cash rate to 2.25% with another 25 bps cut. Quite a turnaround from only 6 out of 26 betting on a rate cut last month. "One bitten, twice ...

Beauty in(foreign) beholders' eyes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... its Statement on Monetary Policy, detailing the reasons for the why and the wherefore it decided to cut the official cash rate by 25 basis points to a record low 2.25%. "...over recent months there have been fewer indications of a near-term strengthening ...

Majority wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... "...the most prudent course is likely to be a period of stability in interest rates" to "...a further reduction in the cash rate was appropriate". More so because he stressed this in his interview with the AFR just before Christmas: "We can't be perfectly ...

Market Wrap AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... waiting to find out whether their lenders will pass on a quarter of a percentage point rate cut after the RBA cut the cash rate to 2.25 per cent on Tuesday. And oil prices have risen more than five per cent overnight on hopes of rebounding global energy ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... market strategist Stan Shamu said the local market was also being buoyed by rising expectations the RBA will cut the cash rate on Tuesday. The cash rate currently sits at 2.5% but markets are pricing in a 65% chance of a quarter of a percentage point ...

Taylor rules the RBA just right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... inflation rate, y is real GDP growth, and y* is the potential output growth. Substituting numbers for the letters: current cash rate is 2.5%; "natural" real interest rate is 3% (my assumption); inflation rate is 2.5% (average of trimmed mean and weighted ...

When Harry met Sally syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US. While the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's decision to leave the cash rate unchanged at 3.5% was largely expected on the 29th, Governor Wheeler's change of tune from a tightening bias to "on hold ...