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Report calls for tougher limits on RBA board members

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2004
Central bank board members should be banned from any role with finance companies, including mortgage brokers and investment trusts, the influential parliamentary economics committee has recommended. The committee also called for mortgage brokers and ...

Vaile warns RBA board on impact of dollar

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2004
The Reserve Bank of Australia board had to take into consideration the strong dollar and its impact on exporters when it next meets, Trade Minister Mark Vaile said. Mr Vaile said a further rise in interest rates would only strengthen the Australian ...

RBA moves to increase interest rates by 25 basis points

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2003
... Bank of Australia today moved to increase the cash rate by 0.25 percentage points to 5.25 per cent. The move, after the RBA board meeting yesterday, follows an 0.25 percentage point increase last month. The RBA said the decision comes as economic conditions ...

RBA expected to hold rates, but hikes will come

... 2002. The strength of domestic spending and employment coupled with a recovering global economy would have pleased the RBA board in September, according to Macquarie Bank senior economist Brian Redican. But a stronger Australian dollar keeping inflation ...

Inflation at low end of RBA target

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 OCT 2003
... official cash rate steady at 4.75 per cent for fifteen straight months as it has been untroubled by rising prices. The RBA board meetings on Tuesday and will make an announcement on what it intends to do with interest rates on Wednesday. Melbourne University ...

Inflation at low end of RBA target

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2003
... official cash rate steady at 4.75 per cent for fifteen straight months as it has been untroubled by rising prices. The RBA board meetings on Tuesday and will make an announcement on what it intends to do with interest rates on Wednesday. Melbourne University ...

Property investment loans rise again in June: ABS

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2003
... government has ordered a Productivity Commission inquiry. The rise makes an interest rate cut even more unlikely when the RBA board meets again next month, and some economists are already expecting the next move in rates to be up. Australian interest ...

House lending remains strong: RBA

... 12.7% above the corresponding month of 2002. In a development which further undermines the case for a rate cut when the RBA board meets next week, housing-related credit surged a further 1.8% in June. The total value of lending for housing was up 21.4% ...

Costello reappoints Macfarlane RBA governor

... the government had reaffirmed the existing arrangements on the handling of interest rates, which is discussed by the RBA board on a monthly basis. "The conduct of monetary policy will be the same," Mr Costello said.

RBA board meeting brings mixed forecasts

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2003
Economists believe the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board is unlikely to cut interest rates when it meets today for the first time since its American counterpart cut US rates to 1 per cent. HSBC economist Anthony Thompson predicted the Reserve would ...