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Ex-RBA Governor joins Macquarie

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... served as Governor between 2006 and 2016, will join both boards on November 1 as an independent director. Stevens was with the RBA for 20 years, during which time he also acted as chair of the Australian Council of Financial Regulators, was a member ...

Jobs galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
... they'll want to build a sufficient buffer to service their hefty mortgages especially if the stronger labour market prompts the RBA to increase interest rates next year.

Time to start factoring in an RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
Forget about the ANZ and NAB's call for the RBA to remove at least the "emergency accommodation" that brought the official cash rate to a record low of 1.5%. If the recent trend in Australian consumer spending - or in this case, not spending - continues ...

Profit margin squeeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... the Australian equity market's flat performance this year to date - the All Ordinaries index is up a full 0.01% - and the RBA's reluctance to move.

Interest rates on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
It was a ho-hum event, the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) 3 October board meeting, that is. The Australian central bank kept interest rates unchanged as widely expected. This takes to 14 the number of months the RBA has kept the official interest ...

Expansion everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... sub-index rising to 61.2 which is higher than the past 12 months' average of 58.9. The balance indicates no movement from the RBA when it meets later today.

A matter of assumptions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
While most of the world's biggest central banks have embraced uber-transparency, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) appears to still be subscribing to "fedspeak". It's still keeping Australians in the dark about its next policy movement. In its September ...

Big four ditch ATM withdrawal fees

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
... this is another example of acting on customer feedback as well as genuine reform from the industry." CBA cited data from the RBA, which showed that Australian customers made more than 250 million withdrawals from ATMs not connected to their bank in 2016 ...

Peak iron ore?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
Governor Philip Lowe's statement explaining the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy decision to keep interest rates unchanged at 1.5% at their 5 September Board meeting, revealed the Australian central bank's optimism over the international ...

Westpac chair joins boutique manager board

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... October 9 and will provide investors an exposure to a portfolio of more than 50 corporate loans targeting a return of the RBA cash rate plus 3.25% per annum net of fees. MCP manages wholesale funds with assets of more than $2 billion.