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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... June share price index futures contract was up nine points at 5,981. In local economic news on Tuesday, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is slated to deliver a speech at the Australian Financial Review Banking and Wealth Summit in Sydney. ...

Overseas investors flocking to Australian bonds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... in and that means there are challenges for the future," Gartside said. Miller agrees, predicting the Reserve Bank of Australia will drop interest rates by at least 50 basis points before year's end. Miller also believes the Aussie dollar will fall to ...

Go flip a coin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... no, maybe I don't know Can you repeat the question?" - 'Boss of Me' The question - again - is will the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut interest rates on the first Tuesday of next month? With barely two weeks to go and armed with the latest inflation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... share price index futures contract was up 37 points at 5,864. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its April board meeting minutes while RBA governor Glenn Stevens delivers a speech at an American Australian Association ...

A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... and then, the boss decides to hire a sidekick. Understandably, this piece of good news in half of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) dual mandate - employment and inflation - has financial markets re-calibrating their odds for a May interest rate ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... lower because investors had already factored in the probability of another interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank of Australia, which would benefit the banks. "Speculators and investors who have been investing in the banks are now thinking how much higher ...

Digital currency continues to be monitored: RBA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
The Reserve Bank of Australia believes digital currencies do not currently raise issues for them in terms of monetary policy and financial stability mandates. The RBA recently addressed a Senate Economics References Committee inquiry about digital currency ...

Strike three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
It's a hat trick. It's three for three. Three times that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) wrong-footed market expectations. Governor Glenn Stevens cut interest rates by 25 basis points to a record low 2.25% back in February when markets expected ...

RBA rate cut: earlier and more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... chance of April was what I typed on this space seven days ago. Yes Virginia, 'twas about the when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would next cut the official cash rate which it unexpectedly left unchanged at its March Board meeting after unexpectedly ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... share price index futures contract was down 10 points at 5,968. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia issues it financial stability review. The annual Deloitte Australian Mortgage Report is also due out. In equities news ...