Reserve Bank of Australia

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Will the RBA follow the US Fed in lifting interest rates despite banking turmoil? | Satyajit Das
Unnerved by a looming financial crisis, the US central bank has raised rates. Will Australia follow suit?

Satyajit Das

23, Mar, 2023 @2:26 AM

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Productivity is all well and good, but what’s in it for Australia’s workers? | Greg Jericho
Economists too often use the word as a synonym for company profits. Why make more with less if it doesn’t improve living standards?

Greg Jericho

22, Mar, 2023 @10:21 PM

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Unemployment rate in Australia falls back to 3.5% despite interest rate rises
Economy adds almost 64,000 jobs, a figure that will be closely examined by the RBA as it decides whether to pause further interest rate increases

Peter Hannam Economics correspondent

16, Mar, 2023 @1:01 AM

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Sure, prices have fallen, but we have a decade of absurd growth to undo to make housing affordable | Greg Jericho
Let’s not start suggesting millennials are flush with opportunity to buy a home – little will change until wages rise faster than prices

Greg Jericho

15, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

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Sydney trains delayed due to ‘communication issue’ – as it happened
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Mostafa Rachwani and Amy Remeikis and Martin Farrer (earlier)

08, Mar, 2023 @7:44 AM

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Philip Lowe leaves clues his rate-rising work may be done – bar an Easter finale | Peter Hannam
The RBA governor has ditched his hawkish tone and the odds now seem to favour just one more rise, probably in April – but that could change

Peter Hannam

07, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

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Governor’s language shifts on future hikes – as it happened
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Mostafa Rachwani and Amy Remeikis and Martin Farrer (earlier)

07, Mar, 2023 @8:04 AM

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RBA interest rates: Reserve Bank increases official cash rate to 3.6% in record 10th consecutive rise
Interest rates at highest level since mid-2012 as central bank continues to try to drive down inflation

Peter Hannam

07, Mar, 2023 @5:05 AM

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Interest rate rises: is there a less painful way to curb inflation?
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s monetary policy has been criticised as unfair and ‘too blunt’. But what are the alternatives?

Peter Hannam Economics correspondent

06, Mar, 2023 @11:52 PM

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Australia’s annual inflation eases to 7.4% in January following record run of interest rate hikes
Lower than expected inflation rate suggests worst of the price increases may be over

Peter Hannam

01, Mar, 2023 @2:01 AM

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Court throws out ‘inappropriate’ bail conditions on student arrested after Sydney protest at Reserve Bank
Magistrate says she ‘didn’t understand’ why police imposed bail on woman, 23, who was charged with trespass after protest last month

Caitlin Cassidy

01, Mar, 2023 @1:59 AM

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Australia’s big banks are passing on all the interest rates hikes – but not the cuts
While the banks have been quick to pass on RBA’s every cash rate increase, they have not matched all the decreases since June 2019

Josh Nicholas and Jonathan Barrett

24, Feb, 2023 @11:00 PM

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