Posts tagged "interest rate rises"

You might not know it from reading Tuesday’s statement announcing Australia’s eighth consecutive increase in interest rates, but our Reserve Bank might finally have done enough.

With the cost of seemingly everything rising, why are house prices falling? And who will be hit hardest?

The Reserve Bank is pushing up interest rates to take money out of our hands, so why is the government scheduled to do the opposite?

For SMEs that have weathered the pandemic and are trying to get back into growth mode, inflation couldn’t come at a worse time.

Australia's latest burst of inflation is weird, and resistant to rate hikes. If the RBA isn’t careful, too many more rate hikes like this might help bring on a recession.

The reality is business is struggling, and in its meeting tomorrow the RBA is widely tipped to be taking the first step to raising rates by winding back quantitative easing measures.

Economists are pointing to another interest rate rise as soon as August following the release of yesterday’s higher-than-expected inflation …