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Government to blame for fall in business confidence

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... they have been in the money market last year." Despite the growing number of analysts that expect the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to cut interest rates in the coming months, Eslake predicted that "the next movement in interest rates will be upwards ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... in October to 50.3 in November, the weakest level since March. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its monthly board meeting and makes its interest rate decision. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases October ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... share price index futures contract was down 44 points at 5,294. In local economic news on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the index of commodity prices for November while the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases business indicators ...

Cash rate more likely to fall than rise: PIMCO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is more likely to cut the cash rate than raise it in 2015, according to PIMCO head of portfolio management in Australia Robert Mead. While Mead said the most likely scenario in 2015 is that rates will stay where they ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... per cent higher but London's FTSE down 100 index 0.09 per cent. In local economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases October financial aggregates data. The FeTech magnetite and iron ore conference continues in Perth. In equities news ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... PBOC (depending on how much slower the Politburo could tolerate slowing growth) could ease.... and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would keep the official cash rate on ice "until 2016". I placed quotation marks on "until 2016" cause that's one of ...

ASX and Bank of China sign major agreement

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... RMB in the Asia Pacific and deepens the Australia-China economic relationship. ASX congratulates the Reserve Bank of Australia and the People's Bank of China for reaching this milestone. "The heads of agreement strengthens the relationship between ASX ...

Industry seizes China FTA opportunities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... Australasia's first renminbi hub in Sydney, following its approval by the People's Bank of China and the Reserve Bank of Australia in Canberra yesterday. Westpac chief executive Gail Kelly said the hub would allow the renminbi to "move freely throughout ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... share price index futures contract was up 11 points at 5,437. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its November board meeting while RBA governor Glenn Stevens is slated to deliver a speech to the Committee ...

The Future Fund is not a super fund: Costello

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... no point in the government taxing itself. The government does not tax the dividends of its bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia; it does not tax the dividends of its wealth fund, the Future Fund." Another major difference is that, since the Howard government ...