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Banking and Finance Oath reshuffles board

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
... industry to sign an ethics code. Laker is an economist by training, has had an extensive career in the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and has also worked for the Commonwealth Treasury and the International Monetary Fund. He was appointed an Officer ...

Good tidings sway RBA to stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... rationales for a cut was equally rational as those for a no cut - so no blame all around. In the end, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to stay the course - keeping the official cash rate at 2.0% yesterday because of good tidings in the economy ...

Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... two central banks that conducted their regular tete-a-tete on monetary policy so far this week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept money things the same - as expected - as it continues to see the "global economy is expanding at a moderate pace ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... good measure. The problem with this is that it creates a problem for other central bankers such as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) but more pointedly for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the European Central Bank (ECB). RBA Gov Glenn presented his rationale ...

A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... you, I and Irene can be thankful for, and that is the Australian dollar is falling. Hip, hip... The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has found itself engaged in this new currency war - triggered by China's recent devaluation of the yuan - without firing ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... We can blame it on the Rio... but it could never, never be us. For, according to the minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) August Board meeting, "Domestically, economic activity had generally been more positive over recent months." Likewise ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
It wasn't only the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) that didn't surprise with its unchanged policy decision yesterday, that other reserve bank did too. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced no change in policy settings following the conclusion of ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... of Statistics' (ABS) CPI report for the June quarter has heated up speculations of whether or not the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would cut interest rates once (or twice?) more. First the stats: annual headline CPI inflation was clocked at 1.5% in ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... share price index futures contract was down 27 points at 5,619. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is slated to speak at an Anika Foundation event in Sydney. Meanwhile, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... share price index futures contract was up 10 points at 5,652. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia's monthly board meeting minutes are expected while the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence survey is also due out. Meanwhile ...