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6 December 2022
Home owners are ringing in the festive period with a present they cant re-gift, after the RBA announced a rate hike for the month of December.
4 January 2023
A long-term low-interest rate environment didn’t adversely affect Australian banking profitability, the RBA has found.
8 December 2022
Treasury has reacted to the RBA decision assessing a 2023 economic slowdown, but for ‘how long?’ and ‘by how much?’, economists have posed.
24 November 2022
While current high inflation came as ‘a shock’ its pressure could get ‘more variable’, the central bank has warned.
2 February 2023
The central bank has said it expects about half of all outstanding fixed loan debt to change to variable rates in 2023.
13 February 2023
The RBA has given more background to factors affecting its ideal inflation target, going forward.
9 February 2023
The central bank’s February 25-bp cash rate hike has started flowing through to the first major banks.
11 November 2022
Some Australians borrow more to “keep up with the Joneses” but not for houses, latest data has revealed.
20 February 2023
The central bank says it’s the level of cash rate — not the speed it’s achieved — that matters, Australian senators have heard.
2 May 2023
The official cash rate has been hiked to 3.85 per cent, the highest level since 2012.
29 November 2022
RBA governor Philip Lowe has issued an apology to borrowers who “acted on what we’d said and now regret what they had done.”
1 November 2022
Most big four banks expect a 0.25 per cent rate hike today, but recent inflation data may have put 50bps back on the table.
7 February 2023
Australia’s central bank has confirmed a cash rate hike to start 2023, as sundry economists had expected.
12 December 2022
Financial associations have called for change to the RBA decision process via their submissions to the review panel.
22 November 2022
The think tank has firmly laid down its economic productivity suggestions on the eve of RBA governor Philip Lowe’s CEDA dinner speech.