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  • The dilemma Down Under

    Banking, Capital Markets: 13.5.13, 06:00: What’s a central bank to do if extremely low interest rates threaten to ignite a housing boom, but a rate rise will put upwards pressure on an over-valued currency? SUBSCRIBER CONTENT ONLY.

  • Full rate cuts flow through to borrowers

    Banking: 13.5.13, 06:00: By close of business last week, 31 lenders had announced rate cuts after the Reserve Bank of Australia lowered the cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.75 per cent earlier in the week.

  • Q1 retail sales strong; RBA to hold

    Banking: 07.5.13, 06:00: Retail sales volumes rose by 2.2 per cent in the March quarter, the strongest quarterly rise in six years, meaning there is no urgent need for the RBA to cut interest rates today.

  • Playing the long game

    Capital Markets: 01.5.13, 12:00: Locking in funding for decades sounds great in theory, but bonds that run for fifty years could also prove to be problematic, writes Marion Williams, pondering both sides of a very polarising debate.

  • Australian CPI low on soft demand

    Banking: 26.4.13, 06:00: March quarter Australian inflation came in below economists’ forecasts due to unexpected falls in fruit and vegetable prices and softness in clothing and furniture prices.

  • RBA to invest $1.6bn in China

    Asian Markets, Capital Markets: 26.4.13, 06:00: The Reserve Bank of Australia has announced it is set to invest approximately 5 per cent of the country's foreign reserves in Chinese government securities.

  • RBA no fan of macro-prudential tools

    Banking, New Zealand: 24.4.13, 06:00: The RBA thinks it is better to have prudential frameworks that are set conservatively at the beginning of the cycle rather than using macroprudential tools during the cycle to prevent asset bubbles.

  • Australian Q1 CPI to be benign

    Banking: 23.4.13, 06:00: Economists expect another tame inflation reading when the March quarter consumer prices index (CPI) is published on Wednesday, giving the RBA scope to cut interest rates later in the year.

  • Mining investment boom self-funded

    Banking: 17.4.13, 06:00: Australia’s mining investment boom has been financed substantially from the operating cash flow of the companies doing the investment, thanks to the historically high level of commodity prices.

  • China's shadow banking sector increasing: RBA

    Asian Markets: 16.4.13, 06:00: Glenn Stevens, the governor of Australia's central bank, noted the concern about the risks that may be growing in the ‘shadow banking’ system in China.

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