Australia should stop “pretending” it can compete against the low-wage economies of Asia and instead focus on productivity, Reserve Bank…
Australia should stop “pretending” it can compete against the low-wage economies of Asia and instead focus on productivity, Reserve Bank…
The Reserve Bank may have cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 3.25% last week, but only two of the big four banks passed the rate cut o…
It’s getting harder and harder for Australian entrepreneurs to read the signals coming out of the global and domestic economies. Financ…
The current interest rate cutting cycle, which began in November, is not aimed at boosting house prices or “re-igniting a boom in borrowin…
The Reserve Bank of Australia has answered the prayers of business owners and mortgage holders by cutting official interest rates by 25 basi…
The Reserve Bank says Australia’s electronic payments system is failing to meet customers’ expectations, with RBA governor Glenn Stevens…
The banks are under growing pressure to settle electronic money transfers more quickly, after the Reserve Bank said Australia’s current syst…
Australian consumers are a gloomy bunch at present. The Reserve Bank delivered a super-sized rate cut, banks passed most of it on, fixed-ter…
A couple of weeks ago the deputy governor of the RBA, Dr Phil Lowe, revealed that the “biggest surprise” for the central bank in 2011 ha…
Today I want to put to you an idea that the prevailing attitude to, and analysis of, Australia’s banking system is profoundly misguided. …
Conventionally a 50 basis point cut in official interest rates ought to trigger alarm bells. Today it could just be evidence of the Reserve …
The Reserve Bank has answered the prayers of the business sector, lowering the cash rate by 50 basis points to 3.75%, but experts aren’t c…
