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Inflation cools but RBA unlikely to budge

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
... into how inflation is trending." The latest inflation data comes after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the cash rate on hold at 4.35% at the September meeting yesterday. Despite cooling inflation, the market is not anticipating the data to move ...

Fed cut will not move the dial for RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
The US Federal Reserve delivered its first interest rate cut in four years, reducing the official cash rate by 50 basis points, but experts say the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is still not in a position to do the same. Yesterday's official unemployment ...

Investment boutique calls time after seven years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... the years." Wheelhouse's global fund aimed to deliver long-term returns greater than the Reserve Bank of Australia cash rate plus 2.5% over rolling five-year periods. Since inception it's returned 6.4% against the benchmark's 4.3%. Meantime ...

Economists hit back at RBA guidance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
... guidance would mean that if the economic data over the near term evolves in line with the banks central forecasts, the cash rate would be left on hold until 2025 - something he disagrees with. "We continue to side with market pricing and think it more ...

BlackRock launches new bond ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
BlackRock Australia has announced it will launch the iShares 20+ year US Treasury Bond ETF (ASX: ULTB) with a management fee of 0.15%. The addition of the ETF extends the local iShares fixed income range, which it said offers Australian advisers and ...

What does the RBNZ rate cut mean to Australia?

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024
... year from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). RBA governor Michele Bullock insisted "that a near-term reduction in the cash rate doesn't align with the board's current thinking". Bullock's statement was echoed by deputy governor Andrew Hauser ...

Wages grow 0.7% in June quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... seen since the peak of 91.6% in the June 2023 quarter. This reflects fewer rises in the Reserve Bank of Australia's cash rate in the last 12 months and a slowing in the rollover of expired fixed rate mortgages to higher variable rate mortgages," ...

EQT wins RE mandate from Woodbridge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... replaced AGP Investment Management from August 1. The Woodbridge Private Credit Fund aims to provide a return of the RBA cash rate plus 5% to 7% per annum net of fees and expenses. The fund invests in first mortgage, senior secured Australian and New ...

RBA on hold: Experts split on 2024 cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
... scenario. "Based on what I know today and what the board knows today, what we can say is that a near-term reduction in the cash rate doesn't align with the board's current thinking," Bullock said. "I understand that this is not what people want to hear. ...

Markets melt down over 'premature' recession fears

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024
... positive for traders out of Monday's carnage: it is now almost certain the Reserve Bank board will not raise the cash rate at today's meeting," Ho said. Echoing this sentiment, most experts (81%, 29/36) from Finder's RBA Cash Rate Survey ...