The ongoing shakeout of global credit markets means that Australian borrowers are less likely to face another 0.25 per cent rise in their home loans [...]
Home loan borrowers may be getting some respite from higher interest rates from an unusual quarter, amid buoyant economic conditions that might normally warrant further [...]
The Reserve Bank (RBA) left interest rates on hold this week and can be expected to hold off again next month at least, despite the [...]
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Australian consumers spent freely in July as the national mood continues to be bright thanks to record employment conditions, strong consumer confidence and budget tax [...]
The Reserve Bank meets in ten days to consider interest rates but there is no realistic chance of any move in September, up or down. [...]
The chance of another rate rise in the next six months remains well and truly on the cards, but hardly a forgone conclusion, following testimony [...]
The Reserve Bank raised interest rates to their highest level in ten years this week, the official cash rate rising 0.25 percentage points to 6.5 [...]
It appears the time has come for interest rates, with a high chance that the Reserve Bank will raise official rates by 0.25 percentage points [...]
In a blow to the Howard government's campaign to keep rates on hold the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that central banks may need [...]
Little new has emerged in the past week in the interest rate outlook and the chances of a rate rise as soon as August still [...]
Pressure for an increase in interest rates has perhaps eased slightly following the release of the June jobs figures showing a slight increase in unemployment [...]
The Reserve Bank this week left interest rates on hold for July as expected, but August is another matter and data on jobs and inflation [...]
Interest rates are all but certain to be left steady for another month when the Reserve Bank board meets on Tuesday to deliberate on rates [...]
The strong economic performance of recent months, and the potential for inflation and interest rate problems coming over the horizon, are underlined in the latest [...]
A rise in home loan interest rates is not imminent but may not be too far off. That's the bottom line in a warning speech [...]
The possibility of an interest rate rise this year has returned this week as the rebound in the Australian economy in 2007 takes most by [...]
The Reserve Bank meets on Tuesday for its monthly consideration of interest rates, but there is nothing in recent economic data that would suggest any [...]
There is virtually no prospect of a rise in interest rates, or a fall for that matter, before the federal election due in the last [...]
The latest wages figures add gloss to Australia's virtuous economic picture in 2007. Despite the lowest unemployment and highest levels of consumer confidence in decades [...]
Another 50,000 jobs added in April and the employment market just keeps on keeping on, driving unemployment to just 4.4 per cent, a 32-year low. [...]
The Howard Government will be breathing all-round sighs of relief after the Reserve Bank's latest economic assessment hinted borrowers may well be spared a rate [...]
Borrowers can rest easy until at least the second half of the year, quite possibly longer, knowing that interest rate rises are off the agenda. [...]
The coming week is key for the chances of a further interest rate rise with the release of the first quarter inflation figures on Tuesday. [...]
Debate continues as to how close the Reserve Bank is to raising interest rates again. Whatever the RBA board thinks now, the release of the [...]
The Reserve Bank chose not to lift interest rates at its April meeting this week. A 0.25 per cent hike must have been a close [...]
The Reserve Bank's own measures of credit growth suggest we might well be in for an interest rate rise as early as the coming week [...]
Most economic indicators are now aligning in the same direction and pointing to a strong year for the Australian economy. But for home loan borrowers [...]
While further rate rises are by no means certain this year, the chances of the need for further rate hikes to keep inflation in check [...]
The Reserve Bank left interest rates on hold for March but the chances that it might act to lift rates at some stage this year [...]
A slew of economic data out this week suggests the signs of economic slowdown evident in the second half of last year may be fading [...]
The Reserve Bank (RBA) retains a leaning towards higher interest rates in 2007 rather than lower, that much is clear. That's not to say we [...]
Borrowers can have more confidence that they will avoid further interest rate rises during 2007 following the Reserve Bank's quarterly monetary policy statement this week, [...]
Despite leaving official interest rates unchanged at the February Reserve Bank board meeting, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) inflation police will be on a [...]
With the pace of lending slowing and year on year new home sales down 11 per cent, it is highly unlikely the Reserve Bank will [...]
From rate rise to rate cut, what a difference a week and the release of the consumer price index (CPI) makes! The December CPI indicates [...]
All eyes remain focused on the release of the consumer price index (CPI) data to be released on January 24, with many economists forecasting inflationary [...]
If the government's mid-year fiscal and economic review turns out to be right, we can expect interest rates to stay on hold in the first [...]
After the third interest rate rise this year, the big question borrowers are entitled to ask is "Have interest rates peaked yet?" Some timely clues [...]
Australian home loan borrowers should be prepared for variable mortgage rates to go up 0.25 per cent this Wednesday. It is likely the board of [...]
A third interest rate rise this year looks to be on the way in November, following the release of the September quarter CPI, which shows [...]
There was little economic data released over the past week with relevance to the interest rate outlook. But even if there was, there is really [...]
Another interest rate rise in November now seems more likely than not given the latest jobs market growth and the revelations in what the Reserve [...]
The Reserve Bank left interest rates on hold for October as expected amid conflicting economic signs about where the economy is headed over the next [...]
The October board meeting of the Reserve Bank has come around quickly, too quickly really to consider that enough has changed from the last meeting [...]
The current interest rate outlook can be summarised in one question: Is another rate rise needed to bring a buoyant economy to heel, or will [...]
If anything, the chances of a further interest rate rise this year may have receded over the past couple of weeks but a confused picture [...]
The Reserve Bank board left official interest rates on hold for September but that's not to say it doesn't stand ready to lift rates later [...]
A flurry of robust economic data out over the last week further shows why the Reserve Bank (RBA) decided to put up interest rates in [...]
A modest rise in house prices during the June quarter, the third quarterly increase in a row, has helped to dispel any lingering fears about [...]
Outgoing Reserve Bank governor Ian Macfarlane says further interest rates rises may well be needed to ensure that inflation is kept in check. Under questioning [...]
Yet more good economic news from an economy that is going from strength to strength this year. But for borrowers the good news turns bad [...]
The Reserve Bank lifted official interest rates by 0.25 percentage points in August as expected this week, but as the rise begins to flow through [...]
Interest rates now look set to rise another quarter of a percent this Wednesday after the CPI for the June quarter showed headline inflation running [...]
Another interest rate rise of 0.25 percentage points within two weeks remains a firm possibility with no signs of note emerging this week to contradict [...]
A week is a long time in the outlook for interest rates. A flurry of economic data all pointing to an ever strengthening economic performance [...]
Interest rates were left on hold in July by the Reserve Bank, as expected, but there remains upward pressure on interest rates that could see [...]
Increasing speculation of another rise in interest rates should ease partially ahead of this week's RBA board meeting after monthly credit figures for May showed [...]
The latest data out this week does little to change the strong economic picture and the outlook for interest rates which see a further rise [...]
Interest rates remain top of mind in Australia with a combination of the May rate rise, petrol price increases and world inflation fears being reflected [...]
As predicted, the RBA left interest rates unchanged this week at 5.75 per cent as Australia became awash with new economic indicators, all of which [...]
A chance of an interest rate rise is still unlikely as we await further indication of the effects of the last increase in May. A [...]
This week saw the release of the ABS House Price data with Australian house prices showing a modest rise in the March quarter, up 1 [...]
The latest wages and lending figures out this week don't increase pressure for further rises in interest rates, but they do underline that the interest [...]
Housing finance figures for March show that borrowing for housing grew quite strongly in the first quarter of this year, lending weight to the Reserve [...]
The Reserve Bank has followed up its bad news for borrowers on interest rates this week with some good news as consolation. The latest RBA [...]
The Reserve Bank has lifted official interest rates by 0.25 percentage points to 5.75 per cent. The rise will flow on to variable rate home [...]
Australian borrowers should prepare themselves for a rise in interest rates, but that's not to say we'll get one immediately. The Reserve Bank (RBA) board [...]
The price of oil is on the rise again, and this has direct implications for the level of home loan interest rates for Australian borrowers. [...]
Good news of late on jobs, exports and consumer spending has again raised the prospect of a rise in variable interest rates, although borrowers shouldn't [...]
The latest round of economic data out this week support the Goldilocks nature of the economy that's emerged in recent months – one that's not [...]
It's been a dull old time on the interest rates scene in recent weeks with little if any economic news likely to change the outlook [...]
A slump in economic growth and a further slide in home approvals have taken some more pressure off interest rates. Not that there was any [...]
Interest rates remain on hold for now but there is more economic data to support the Reserve Bank's warning that there's a risk that variable [...]
The message is clear, straight from the horse's mouth – interest rates may be steady for the time being but the next move in rates [...]
A fall in employment in January only adds weight to forecasts that interest rates are going nowhere, despite some signs of the housing market continuing [...]
The first interest rates meeting of the Reserve Bank board in 2006 on Tuesday will almost certainly decide to keep interest rates on hold. There [...]
The latest inflation figures show an easing in price growth during the last quarter, further cementing the economic picture of a stable economy with no [...]
The climate of steady interest rates faces its first major test of the year in the coming week with the release of inflation figures for [...]
The New Year begins with a steady interest rate climate and confirmation that housing affordability has improved markedly since the end of the housing boom [...]
Interest rates are still likely to stay on hold well into the New Year, despite comments by RBA governor Ian Macfarlane this week being interpreted [...]
The Reserve Bank left official interest rates on hold at 5.5 per cent for December, no surprise to anyone. With a month off over the [...]
The fall in new car sales in October provides more evidence of the impact high petrol prices are having on the Australian consumer. After a [...]
The latest wages growth figures contain mixed signals for inflation and interest rates with the outlook broadly unchanged: Variable interest rates on hold into the [...]
The heat is off interest rates for now but the Reserve Bank of Australia still has a wary eye cast firmly on inflation and the [...]
Aussie punters may have arisen with a Makybe Diva-inspired hangover this morning but the Reserve Bank, as expected, has not increased the pain with an [...]
The threat of rising inflation has seen the chances of an interest rise sometime in the next six months climb, but whether a rate rise [...]
The Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Glenn Stephens speaking in Hobart this week gave an insight into the RBA attitude to the continued rising oil price [...]
The Reserve Bank will meet to discuss interest rates on Tuesday and while there is next to no chance of any move on rates in [...]
With so little Reserve Bank action in prospect on official interest rates currently, and in turn retail variable home loan rates, the focus of lender [...]
There are signs that the sustained increase in petrol prices over the last year may finally be starting to bite in the economy with big [...]
A rebound in economic growth and the never-say-die jobs market provide a gentle warning this week that home loan interest rates may not be as [...]
You'd be forgiven for thinking that interest rates will be steady long into the future given the current ease of the Reserve Bank and economists [...]
Inflation remains the only threat to stable interest rates in Australia in the months ahead. The threats to inflation in turn come via the spiralling [...]
Interest rates in Australia remain in a state of suspended animation, a situation underlined by the Governor of the Reserve Bank, Ian MacFarlane, in a [...]
A sharp rise in retails sales figures for June and a stronger than expected building approvals result for June will see the RBA maintain a [...]
The lower than expected outcome for 2nd Quarter CPI will help ease the concerns of the mortgage belt of further interest rate increases with the [...]
The only real threat to interest rates at the moment appears to be rising fuel prices and the implications they have for inflation. On Wednesday, [...]
The Reserve Bank has left interest rates on hold for August, amid economic indicators that point to interest rate stability in coming months. Job ads, [...]
The Reserve Bank may just have pulled off a soft landing in the housing market with its two rate rises in late 2003 and one [...]
Interest rates stayed on hold again at the Reserve Bank's June meeting and the possibility of further rises this year seems now to be receding. [...]