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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... which strips out the effects of volatile price movements, indicated an annual rate of 2.35% which is well within the Reserve Bank's target range. That caused the Australian dollar to bounce almost half a US cent to 77.60 US cents and the sharemarket ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... However it 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 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 37 points 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 ...

A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... no more... and then, the boss decides to hire a sidekick. Understandably, this piece of good news in half of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) dual mandate - employment and inflation - has financial markets re-calibrating their odds for a May interest ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... the banks were lower because investors had already factored in the probability of another interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank of Australia, which would benefit the banks. "Speculators and investors who have been investing in the banks are now thinking ...

The first is always the best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... head honcho's (honcha?) statement at "The New Normal Monetary Policy" research conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco last month when she discussed the whys and wherefores of "Normalizing Monetary Policy: Prospects and Perspectives" ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... currency doesn't trade lower over the course of the next month," Lennox said. "And iron ore was up 2.5% last night." The Reserve Bank disappointed investors on Tuesday by keeping its cash rate unchanged, though it has also maintained an easing bias. ...

ASIC to investigate AUD spike

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... its release to the public. "ASIC confirms it will investigate a spike in the Australian dollar shortly before the Reserve Bank's monetary policy decision today," ASIC's statement said. "The investigation will look at trading in the dollar prior to the ...

Digital currency continues to be monitored: RBA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
The Reserve Bank of Australia believes 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 ...

Strike three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
It's a hat trick. It's three for three. Three times that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) wrong-footed market expectations. Governor Glenn Stevens cut interest rates by 25 basis points to a record low 2.25% back in February when markets expected ...