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Daily economic update

... again no surprises in the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) announcement that its Board decided to keep the official cash rate unchanged at 5.5 per cent after yesterday's meeting. Moderate economic growth and benign inflation pressures have allowed the ...

Margin lenders bank on reputation not just rates

... because they tend to be similar across the board. "There's not much huge variation because they're all based on the cash rate," he said. Reputation on the other hand ranked the highest because investors tend to take out their loans with brands that they ...

Daily economic update

... spending, which could slow down the economy this year. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has increased the official cash rate nine times since January 2004 to a record 7.25 per cent, saying household spending, which makes up 60 per cent of the US$97 ...

Daily economic update

As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) left the official cash rate untouched at 5.5 per cent following yesterday's Board meeting. The decision marked the 12th straight month of steady interest rates since March 2005 when it lifted its key ...

Daily economic update

... Australia (RBA) meets today to deliberate on domestic monetary policy settings. Financial markets expect the RBA to keep the cash rate unchanged at 5.5 per cent when it announces its decision tomorrow. In overseas news, US pending existing home sales ...

Weekly economic round-up

... tomorrow. Last week's domestic data releases has ensured this outcome and increased the probability that the Australian cash rate may not be lifted at all this year. Latest National Accounts figures show that although the Australian economy is now on ...

Daily Economic Update

... building approvals remains on a downward trajectory despite the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) keeping the official cash rate steady at 5.5 per cent since March last year. One reason for the continued weakness in the property market is that home affordability ...

Weekly economic round-up

... domestic economy that is growing moderately with little pressure on inflation and, therefore, no impetus for the official cash rate to move one way or the other. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) December quarter report on capital expenditure ...

Daily economic update

... in the economy. The RBNZ has raised interest rates nine times over the past two years, taking the benchmark official cash rate to 7.25 per cent, the highest in the OECD.

Weekly Economic Roundup

... (RBA) kept domestic monetary policy unchanged following its Board meeting last week. The RBA last raised the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 5.5 per cent in March. Since then, indications that growth in the domestic economy is softening have ...