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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... inflation was not very low, the release of positive jobs figures last week and the looming federal budget, due after the May RBA decision, were influencing investors. "There will be an interest rate cut, but from today's data the RBA might take a bit ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... gave up some of the morning's gains, going from 0.9 per cent to 0.6 per cent higher after the release of the Reserve Bank's (RBA) minutes from its recent meeting signalled it was undecided about an interest rate cut. Quay Equities head of trading Tristan ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... at 5,864. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its April board meeting minutes while RBA governor Glenn Stevens delivers a speech at an American Australian Association lunch in New York. The Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... "the bad and the bad and the bad" that spooked markets last Friday weren't really well... bad. Impressive is the workings of RBA governor Glenn Stevens' mind - one that he shared to his audience (and the world) last night in his "Address to The American ...

A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... Holi-Holiday..." -Bonnie M. Hooray! Hooray! Hooray for the fantabulous Australian jobs report for March. It's a holi-holiday for the RBA in May. Well... maybe. 'twas a wonderful set of numbers. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that ...

Now for Australia's debt surge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... below 50 (indicating contraction) for the fourth consecutive month in March to a reading of 46.3. All these, in spite of the RBA lowering the official cash rate to a record low 2.0% (and is expected to lower it some more) and the A$ dropping from a high ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... but CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said it was a neutral day without any conviction for investors. "Since the RBA meeting the market has been on standby and there has been a trading range it has just moved inside of," he said. "It would ...

AMP chief economist says housing future messy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... by APRA." He described the residential property outlook as "messy' for the next five to 10 years. According to Oliver, the RBA's recent decision to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.25% was right in a sense of not to further inflate the property market. ...

ASIC to investigate AUD spike

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
ASIC is investigating a suspicious spike in the Australian dollar that occurred seconds before the RBA announced it was keeping cash rates on hold at 2.25%. The Australian dollar rose to 76.07 US cents (from 75.97) just prior to the RBA's announcement ...

Digital currency continues to be monitored: RBA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... digital currencies do not currently raise issues for them in terms of monetary policy and financial stability mandates. The RBA recently addressed a Senate Economics References Committee inquiry about digital currency and said it continues to monitor ...