Sunday, April 10th, 2011
What is the mandate for the Reserve Bank? This video is a small excerpt from a seminar presented by Mark Bouris at the Melbourne Trading & Investing Expo & Seminars earlier this year about Interest Rates.
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
The interest rate environment in this country is determined by the Reserve Bank. Interest rates are connected to all of your investments...if interest rates start going down, you'll find bank stocks start to get affected negatively. This short video is a glimpse of what Mark delivers at the Trading & ...
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Finally, after six interest rate hikes in the last 8 months, the RBA has provided a little relief to home owners today by deciding to hold the official cash rate at 4.5%. Citing factors including the fall in the Australian dollar, continued trouble in overseas markets and softening commodity prices, ...
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
The 0.25% interest rate rise from the RBA today is almost the worst kept secret of the past month. We all knew it would happen.
"With the risk of serious economic contraction ...
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
8 out of 15 economists had predicted what almost the entire country was certain of happening today - The Reserve Bank Of Australia raising interest rates by another 0.25% to 4.25%.
With a decline in inflation and the appearance of unemployment having peaked at lower than expected levels quoted as being ...
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
NAB has challenged others of the big four on rising interest rates. If the RBA raise rates by another 0.25% today as expected, NAB have made a promise to it's growing customer base that they will not raise by any higher than the amount that the RBA raise by. This ...
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
The vast majority of economic opinion was swinging towards at least a 0.25% rate increase today from the first board meeting of the Reserve Bank of Australia. This was met with the unexpected - a hold on the official cash rate for the time being. The rate stays at 3.75%
Specifically ...
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
Over the past couple of days I have read many a comment (almost all negative) about rising RBA Interest Rates from ordinary people questioning exactly why it has to happen. People of course will most often only go to the length of publicly commenting about something if it annoys them, ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
It looks as though the reserve bank have recognized the stimulus package as having an effect on the economy already, and have backed off from any further drop in interest rates this time around. Having already had the largest decrease in rates in Australias history, the Reserve Bank has held ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly banks will raise mortgage rates when the official cash rate goes up (in some cases even before!) and yet how slow those very same banks are to pass on a rate saving to the customer.
I noticed after the last reserve bank announcement ...
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