Interest rate announcement - September 2016 Today the Reserve Bank of Australia met to review the official cash rate. After cutting rates in August, the RBA have decided to leave rates on hold at 1.50% this month. We expect that most lenders will leave their rates unchanged, in line with the Reserve Bank’s decision.
Key Australian and global economic indicators
We are currently in the midst of the mid-year Australian company reporting season. Listed companies with a 30 June year end date must report their profit results to the market by the end of August 2016. Our expectations for this profit season are as follows: Banks The major banks have all reported now, and as
Interest rate announcement - August 2016 Today the Reserve Bank of Australia met to review the official cash rate. After leaving rates on hold in July, the RBA have decided to cut rates to 1.50% this month (down 0.25%). We expect that most lenders will reduce their rates, in line with the Reserve Bank’s decision.
It has been an interesting month since Britain unexpectedly voted to leave the European Union (EU). In this newsletter, we discuss some of the expected implications of this significant event on world investment markets. Markets, particularly in the UK and Europe, fell sharply immediately after the result of the vote became clear. We believe that
Interest rate announcement - July 2016 Today the Reserve Bank of Australia met to review the official cash rate. After cutting rates in May, the RBA has decided to leave rates on hold at 1.75% again this month. We expect that most lenders will leave their rates unchanged, in line with the Reserve Bank’s decision.
Investment markets in the first half of the 2016 calendar year have been characterised by high levels of volatility. It is normal for markets to experience such ups and downs in the context of sustained global economic and political uncertainty. This is particularly so in the lead up to significant events. Historically, markets have tended
RBA interest rate announcement Today the Reserve Bank of Australia met to review the official cash rate. After cutting rates last month, the RBA have decided to leave rates on hold at 1.75% this month. We expect that most lenders will leave their rates unchanged, in line with the Reserve Bank’s decision. It
Key Australian and global economic indicators
Market analysts often talk about bull markets (i.e. when share prices are rising strongly) and bear markets (i.e. when share prices are falling, and more importantly, when they’re at risk of falling even further). It may come as no surprise that since the end of the Global Financial Crisis (March 2009) our market has typically
