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2025 economic outlook 'threatening': AMP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
... soon drop to around 0.6-0.7% qoq, enabling it to possibly start cutting in February but by May at the latest taking the cash rate down to 3.6% by year end." Oliver said global growth is likely to slow in 2025 to just below 3% and will likely strengthen ...

Bullock hints at no rate cut in 2025

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
... will be met is in 2026. "As it currently stands, underlying inflation is still too high to be considering lowering the cash rate target in the near term," she said. "When setting policy, the board aims to ensure that financial conditions are restrictive ...

Property 'well-placed' for growth: Knight Frank

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
... will depend upon the path of interest rates. "However, investors need to look beyond the timing of the first cut to the cash rate and instead tune into the evolving debate on the neutral interest rate and what it means for long-term interest rates, ensuring ...

Interest rates to remain on hold for some time

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
... plans for that to change anytime soon. "Headline inflation has fallen, but underlying inflation is still too high. The cash rate will stay restrictive until the board is confident that inflation is moving sustainably to the middle of our 2-3% target ...

Inflation falls within RBA's target range

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
... upward pressure on inflation well into 2025. Based on this economic data, we do not see any reason why the RBA's cash rate decision next Tuesday will be anything other than a hold." RSM Australia economist Devika Shivadekar agreed while easing inflation ...

Australian equities rise, but global markets preferred: Morningstar

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2024
... US and as other central banks seem be "more advanced" in their easing cycles, the Reserve Bank of Australia held the cash rate steady at 4.35% in September. Although the move carried a more dovish tone compared to meetings, with the likelihood of another ...

CBA's conviction on December rate cut has 'dipped'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2024
... sticking to its expectations for a rate cut in 2024. "The conviction we have in our call for a 25bp December cut to the cash rate has dipped. But while the risk has firmly shifted to a later start date for the first reduction in the cash rate, we stick ...

RBA feels 'not enough has changed'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
... felt that not enough had changed since the previous meeting to alter their assessment that the current level of the cash rate best balanced the risks to inflation and the labour market," the minutes said. "They therefore agreed that it was appropriate ...

Schroders launches high yield credit strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... benchmarks, to capture returns with appropriately managed risk." The fund seeks to deliver returns of 2.5% to 3.0% above the cash rate and offers liquidity daily, unlike term deposits. It charges a management fee of 0.50% per annum and requires a minimum ...

Inflation cools but RBA unlikely to budge

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
... into how inflation is trending." The latest inflation data comes after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the cash rate on hold at 4.35% at the September meeting yesterday. Despite cooling inflation, the market is not anticipating the data to move ...