US President Barack Obama has praised the decades-long relationship between the United States and Australia in a speech to Federal Parliamen…
US President Barack Obama has praised the decades-long relationship between the United States and Australia in a speech to Federal Parliamen…
As I have argued all year, the most interest rate-sensitive sector of the economy, Aussie housing, is a great “hedge” against adversity (or …
So the Reserve Bank has cut interest rates. Now the guessing game is on in earnest about when the next cut will occur. And that’s reasonable…
The net effect of yesterday’s decision by the RBA to normalise its official target cash rate back to 4.5% is to hand back to borrowers the l…
Wayne Swan’s attack on National Australia Bank, labelling it ”greedy” for ”only” passing onto home loan borrowers 20 basis points of the…
The property and retail industries have enthusiastically welcomed the RBA’s decision to slash the official interest rate by 25 basis points …
I am sure the RBA never actually cheers for financial markets to fall, but undoubtedly there would have been a few knowing smiles exchanged …
The Reserve Bank has cut the official interest rate by 25 basis points to 4.5%, with the board saying it was confident in setting monetary p…
You read a lot in the media about the financial markets’ “pricing” of RBA cash rate changes, or “probabilities” of a rate change in any give…
After the 0.3% core inflation result yesterday (technically, the average of the perfectly consistent “weighted median” and “trimmed mean” p…
While economists are still uncertain whether the Reserve Bank will ultimately cut interest rates on Melbourne Cup Day next Tuesday, a consen…
The Reserve Bank of Australia must cut official interest rates to stimulate an economy that is being weighed down by poor consumer confidenc…
