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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... market needed to improve before it raised the federal funds rate. In local economic news on Thursday, the Reserve Bank of Australia issues its quarterly bulletin. In equities news, Myer, Metcash and OrotonGroup issue half year results while Sigma Pharmaceuticals ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... fall in the US dollar ahead of the US central bank's policy meeting, and maintained its gains after the Reserve Bank of Australia indicated it will consider a rate cut in coming weeks. The strength follows two straight sessions of falls for the market. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... in manufacturing will hold back economic growth this quarter. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its March board meeting. The ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence survey is due out and the Australia ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... big miners. With the Australian dollar falling in value against the greenback, the pressure is off the Reserve Bank of Australia to again cut interest rates here, he added. In the resources sector at 1200 AEDT, global miner BHP Billiton was down 46 cents ...

No board meeting necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... November 2014's easing when the PBOC cut the one-year benchmark lending rate from 5.9% to 5.6%. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) followed with its own - but not the 'kinder surprise' version - putting a stay on interest rates against majority expectations ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... muddled by a slight bounce back in the bank, healthcare and diversified financial sectors a day after the Reserve Bank of Australia left its interest rate on hold. Those stocks were sold off "fairly savagely" following the central bank's decision to ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... 6,000 points since January 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 ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... coming, another rate cut is coming. Bloomberg's survey shows (tada!) 18 out 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 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... economy is growing now at a respectable 3.0 per cent pace or better. In local economic news on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) releases February's index of commodity prices and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases its business indicators ...

Beauty in(foreign) beholders' eyes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
Earlier this month, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) released 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 ...