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EQT bolsters board

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... EQT's board as a non-executive director. Schwartz is currently a non-executive director on the boards of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Qualitas Property Partners and the Trawalla Group, the last of which, she founded herself. Along with her family ...

Chief economist update: Welcome to the day after tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... short of assertive concrete actions, financial markets hoped the "magnificent seven" would undertake. However, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the US Federal Reserve's (Fed) decision to cut interest rates on the same day suggests that a coordinated ...

RBA expected to cut again; maybe even tomorrow

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... the RBA will cut rates by 25bps tomorrow, and the market should price in the chance of a 50bps easing. "Since the Reserve Bank of Australia last met in early February, there have been three significant developments," Ord Minnett said. "First, the distribution ...

ISA takes swipe at Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... at least 80% of the cost of compulsory super comes via lower wages within two to three years, a finding that the Reserve Bank of Australia has endorsed, and the long-term impact is likely to be even higher," Coates said. "ISA's conclusion that higher ...

Shape up on climate change risk: APRA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... risk vulnerability assessment that will begin with the ADI industry and will be analysed in conjunction with the Reserve Bank of Australia. "The vulnerability assessment will involve entities estimating the potential physical impacts of a changing climate ...

Chief economist update: Aussie employment rises... but so does our unemployment rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... Australian dollar dropped to as low as US$0.6610 - its lowest level since the GFC - as markets raised their bets that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would "need" to cut interest rates again soon... very soon, for this, Virginia, is as good as it ...

Chief economist update: Australians not confident enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... confidence index improved to -1 in January 2020 from a 6-1/2-year low of -2 in December 2019. It is likely that the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) optimism has infected sentiment among businesses and consumers. Recall RBA Governor Philip Lowe's ...

Industry super steps up SG campaign as RBA weighs in

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... governor Phillip Lowe at a House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics hearing on Friday. The head of the Reserve Bank said the RBA believes increases to compulsory savings won't impact consumption, as a decrease in voluntary savings will ...

Chief economist update: Lowe puts Australia on high

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
Drought, bushfires, coronavirus are among the risks Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe nominated when he testified before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics on the February 7. One day later, and Lowe would have ...

Lowe snaps back at critics

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
... said. "Consumer confidence and monetary policy were both responding to this reality. My judgement is that if the Reserve Bank had not eased monetary policy last year, this adjustment by households would have been harder, the balance sheet repair would ...