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Cash becomes king with inflation on the up

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2006
... calculated at around 2.75 per cent, which he says is at the "top of the range" and an interest rate hike would then push the cash rate out to around 6 per cent. The impact for fund managers then becomes the short to medium term rising value of cash ...

Hyperion wins $230m Auscoal mandate

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2006
... around 1,400 listed companies, then get down to 200 and end up with 50 stocks. If they give better returns than the cash rate, then we invest in them." And while many growth managers have been riding on the success of the commodities boom, Pohl attributed ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the official cash rate target steady at 5.75 per cent following yesterday's Board meeting. Financial markets widely expected the move this time, unlike the controversial 25 basis point hike announced last month. ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2006
... Financial markets expect the RBA not to immediately follow-up last month's 25-basis point rate hike, which took the official cash rate to 5.75 per cent, with another increase in borrowing rates at tomorrow's Board meeting. Last week's domestic economic ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2006
... shows that Australia's housing market remains weak and the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) lifting of the official cash rate from 5.5 per cent to 5.75 per cent in early May would add to downward pressure on the housing sector. The recent rate hike ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2006
... controversy surrounding the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) announcement of a 25 basis point hike in the country's official cash rate, this week will give financial markets more variables to digest as the Federal Treasury delivers its annual Budget. ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
... Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) finally put to rest market speculation over monetary policy by raising the official cash rate by 25 basis points to a five year high of 5.75 per cent. The RBA last lifted interest rates in March 2005. Market expectations ...

Rate hike catches economists unaware

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) handed down a controversial decision today to lift the official cash rate from 5.5 per cent to 5.75 per cent, a move economists say caught many unawares. Benjamin Ong, chief economist with the Financial Standard Intelligence ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
... to changed expectations over the Australian central bank's near-term policy stance where it is expected to raise the cash rate by 25 basis points to 5.75 per cent as early as next month. However, with the core inflation measure -- which excludes the ...

Aurora to IPO $150 million buy-write trust

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
... around 50 per cent, where the cost of this debt funding will be at an institutional rate of only 1 per cent over the RBA Cash Rate. Merrill Lynch will also put in place a risk management process that may assist in limiting the potential impact to the ...