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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 ...

New Zealand dollar closes in on Aussie

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... iron ore price to $47 has hurt Australia. Downward pressure on the Australian dollar is expected to continue if the Reserve Bank cuts interest rates in its meeting today.

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
Expectations of a Reserve Bank interest rate cut have given the share market a post-Easter boost, with virtually all sectors making gains. Banking and dividend-paying stocks are the main beneficiaries ahead of the central bank's April meeting on Tuesday ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... Stan Shamu said. "It means a lot of domestic pressure and will probably force the RBA's hand to cut rates." With the Reserve Bank's rate decision due next Tuesday, gains are primarily rising in the yield plays, Mr Shamu said. "These are the banks, the ...

RBA rate cut: earlier and more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... with a slight chance of April was what I typed on this space seven days ago. Yes Virginia, 'twas about the when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would next cut the official cash rate which it unexpectedly left unchanged at its March Board meeting ...

2015: a lift year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... Yellen told you, I and Irene at the "The New Normal Monetary Policy" research conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco when she discussed the whys and wherefores of "Normalizing Monetary Policy: Prospects and Perspectives". (http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/yellen20150327a.htm) ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... significant economic data or corporate news out this week or incentives to adjust portfolios ahead of next week's Reserve Bank meeting on interest rates, said Quay Equities head of trading Tristan K'nell. "That big push towards 6000 is probably going ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... the June share price index futures contract was down 10 points at 5,968. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia issues it financial stability review. The annual Deloitte Australian Mortgage Report is also due out. In equities ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... Reserve committee member John Williams is down to speak at an Australian Business Economists lunch in Sydney and Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor Malcolm Edey is slated to take part in a panel discussion at ASIC annual forum, also in Sydney. ...