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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 ...

Daily Economic Update

... mixed readings but the overall implication for monetary policy is for steady interest rates, with a bias towards a lower cash rate, in the near term. Housing (perhaps due to weakening house prices) and commercial finance (because of increased business ...

Daily Economic Update

... its final Board meeting for the year 2005. The Australian central bank last raised interest rates in March taking the cash rate from 5.25 per cent to the current 5.5 per cent. The RBA will hold its first meeting for 2006 in February. Financial markets ...

Daily Economic Update

... Jean Claude Trichet stated that the ECB is ready to raise interest rates to rein in inflation. The Eurozone's official cash rate currently stands at a 60 year low of 2.0 per cent. Meanwhile, the European Commission forecast that the region's inflation ...

Interest rates stay steady

... meeting. The central bank does not issue an accompanying statement when it leaves monetary policy 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 ...

Mariner appoints Business Development Manager

Mariner Mortgage Management Limited, a partner company of Mariner Financial Limited has appointed a new Business Development Manager for Mariner Mortgage Trust. Sean McGrath, formerly a Business Development Manager with ING Group, will head up the distribution ...

RBA keeps rates on hold

... interest rates unchanged at 5.5 per cent following yesterday's Board meeting. While futures trading suggests the official cash rate would remain steady through to the first half of 2006, some are however beginning to pencil in a rate rise by the end ...

Economic roundup

... prices and the deceleration in the property market. Also last week, the Reserve Bank of Australia left the official cash rate unchanged at 5.50 per cent following its Board meeting. It has now been six months since the RBA last lifted interest rates ...

Weekly economic roundup

... the Quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy released by the Australian central bank earlier this week that the official cash rate will remain at 5.5 per cent for the foreseeable future. However, the Governor warned that his statement 'does not mean that ...

Weekly economic roundup

... monetary policy was last week's major market-moving event - or non-event. The Australian central bank left the official cash rate unchanged at 5.5 per cent where they had been since March this year. The RBA does not provide an explanation when it leaves ...