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Weekly economic round-up

... were to move on interest rates, it would more likely be a rise rather than a reduction. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) believes that the RBA's warning is designed to make its forecasts self-fulfilling - not that there is anything wrong ...

Daily economic update

... actions will be increasingly dependent on incoming data.' The bottom line is exactly what the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) said late January -- after the Fed delivered its first rate hike for 2006 - that future rate hikes will be dependent ...

Daily Economic Update

Today's report of a fall in inflation expectations give credence to the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit's view that interest rates are on hold in the near term. The Melbourne Institute reported that Australian consumer expectations dipped to 4.6 ...

Daily Economic Update

... in house prices were chiefly responsible for the drop in consumer confidence. However, the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) believes that Westpac might be reading too much into the data. The consumer confidence survey has been historically ...

Daily Economic Update

... news on employment, the underlying trend in the Australian labour market remains soft. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) has continuously emphasised that one swallow does not make a spring. We need to see the November gain in employment ...

Daily Economic Update

... quarter. This, and the weaker-than-expected growth in the third quarter gives credence to the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit's view that the next RBA move on monetary policy is biased towards lower interest rates.

Daily Economic Update

... 2-3 per cent target band, up from only 15.3 per cent in the previous month's survey. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit believes that the run of weaker-than-expected economic indicators over the past few weeks has shifted the bias of any future ...

Interest rates stay steady

... unchanged. The official cash rate has remained at 5.5 per cent since March this year. The Financial Standaad Intelligence Unit expects the RBA to keep monetary policy where it is until at least the second half of next year as the economy continues to ...

RBA keeps rates on hold

... year citing upward pressure on inflation due to the high price of energy as the drivers. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit's money is with the direction being hinted at by the futures market. This is because while persistently high oil prices ...

Weekly economic roundup

... Governor Ian Macfarlane's speech before the Economics Society of Australia reaffirmed the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit's view that the central bank is unlikely to alter domestic monetary policy settings through to the end of this year. Although ...