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Corporate borrowing hits all-time high despite interest rates

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
... pace, up by 2.5% to a record US$8.38 trillion. It said the cost of debt servicing will continue to grow even as central banks cut interest rates as cheaper older debt is refinanced at new higher rates. Janus Henderson portfolio manager Tim Winstone said ...

'Little prospect' for RBA hike despite stubborn inflation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024
... (presumably eventually) in declining inflation," Miller said. "Arguably, in the current environment uncertainties facing central banks everywhere are unusually elevated. Some of that uncertainty can be sheeted home to the unique nature of any recovery ...

Interest rate relief unlikely 'this side of Christmas'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024
... process fails to resume anytime soon." In fact, higher-for-longer interest rates are likely to remain all major central banks' main strategy for the rest of this year, according to deVere group chief executive Nigel Green said. "We believe that the base ...

ANZ confirms ASIC investigation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... of only a handful of banks that can act as an intermediary between the AOFM and superannuation funds, insurers, central banks, and others seeking to buy Australian debt.

Powell backflips on rates pushing back RBA cut expectations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2024
... holding the cash rate at 4.35% until at least 2025." This comes as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) urged global central banks to "stay vigilant" against the threat of inflation. "A sense of optimism has pervaded financial markets in recent months ...

Powell confirms rate cuts likely 'at some point' this year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024
... opportunities in residential property, senior housing and brick and mortar retail properties. "If history is any guide, and central banks begin to reduce interest rates, the global REIT sector is due for a bounce, supported by the relatively robust macroeconomic ...

T. Rowe Price launches bond fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... "However, this benign investment environment was upended in 2022 as the US Fed, Reserve Bank of Australia and other central banks around the world embarked on a rapid rate hiking cycle to curb high inflation. This new market environment of structurally ...

US Federal Reserve eyes multiple interest rate cuts this year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... the RBA has decided it is willing to tolerate inflation being above its target for longer than its 'peer' central banks are willing to allow inflation being above their respective targets, in order to preserve as much as they can of the gains ...

Economists react to latest RBA rate decision

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... aged care workers last week. "But as was the case in the February meeting the RBA remains cautious, like some other central banks," Oliver said. "In this regard it notes that inflation remains high, services inflation remains a concern with continuing ...

Interest rate cut may not come until 2025, experts warn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2024
... the RBA has decided it is willing to tolerate inflation being above its target for longer than its 'peer' central banks are willing to allow inflation being above their respective targets, in order to preserve as much as they can of the gains ...