The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) left the cash rate at 4.25% last week. But one by one, the Big Four banks are raising their rates anyway.
February 13th, 2012 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Reserve Bank of Australia"
What the RBA Index of Commodity Prices Doesn’t Tell You
A whole sector of the commodities complex that’s in a long-term bull market isn’t measured by the RBA’s commodity prices index. Do you realise what this means?
February 7th, 2012 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
The First Casualty of the Currency Wars
Can Australia’s currency continue its rampage while exporters burn? The currency wars have been going on quietly here at home for some time now. And going by the state of our exporters, we’re losing.
February 4th, 2012 | Nickolai Hubble | 3 comments | Continued
Australia Forgets the Little People
How about that? Contrary to our gloomy disposition yesterday, the stock market has taken off like a rocket this morning. The material sector is up 2.9% today alone. It was the worst performing sector in Australia on the ASX in 2011, down 25% thanks to lower commodity prices.
January 4th, 2012 | Dan Denning | 7 comments | Continued
CLF – The RBA’s Pre-emptive Bank Bailout
The RBA has announced how the CLF – a kind of pre-emptive bank bailout would work.
Of course… they won’t call it that.
November 29th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
Australians More Interested in Investing in Property than on Stock Market
You’ll pardon the sense of inevitability in today’s Daily Reckoning. After all it’s raining. But even so, with over $1 billion in Melbourne property clearing auctions this week (at a clearance rate of 86%) it definitely feels like Australians have found a way to hasten their own financial day of reckoning. Of course not everyone agrees.
March 29th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 45 comments | Continued
Debt Drugged
Governments and central banks have managed to engineer some more spin, but only at the expense of piling more debt on top of the already wobbling structure.
March 6th, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 2 comments | Continued
ABARE Explains How Much Australia Can Make from Selling Silver, Iron Ore and Coal
The main conclusion was that Australia would see rising export earnings on higher volumes but moderating commodity prices. In other words, the China boom will drive export volumes for the next five years. But you won’t see any more mammoth increases in commodity prices.
March 3rd, 2010 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Banks Could Face Serious Trouble from Losses on Residential and Commercial Real Estate
“For the North Atlantic economies,” Debelle concludes, “this was a big recession which, combined with large falls in both commercial and housing property prices, should result in large losses.” He goes on to point out that the government-guaranteed larger lenders might survive these larger losses. But smaller regional banks might not.
February 18th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 50 comments | Continued
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October 26th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
Economy Has to Grow at 1% to Stay Even With Population Growth
There are now about 131 million jobs in the United States…and about 15 million people who would like a job but can’t find one.
October 8th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
Glenn Stevens Says Australia’s Economy Has Been Travelling Better Than Others
We’ll see about that. Stocks are certainly pricing in a profit recovery (about which we have our doubts). But Mr. Stevens also had a bit to say about credit markets and balance sheets, in comments that were not as widely reported as his comments on Australian housing. More on housing in a second.
July 29th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 25 comments | Continued
Reserve Bank of Australia Will Meet to Determine the Price of Money
This denial of reality should be interesting to watch. When a credit bubble deflates and an economy breaks its addiction to reckless debt, the sensible thing to do (since you’re repairing your balance sheet) is dial things back a bit. Save. Cut back on the gadgets. Eat more staples. Wear a sack cloth.
But if you still believe that you can get something for nothing-well then yes-you’d continue to borrow and spend like a madman.
July 6th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 9 comments | Continued
Embrace Inflation
How to Make a 979.2% Return in 43 Years… Embrace inflation, that’s how. In some newer dictionaries the term “Inflation” is beginning to be revised as a phenomenon of rising prices. But I prefer the traditional meaning where “Inflation is the Increase in the money supply”. I’m sad to say, the Keynesian economists and other money printers are in effect encouraging this change of the financial lexicon. If you read from the RBA’s mission statement you’ll read the expression “targeted inflation.”
May 25th, 2009 | Mark Thompson | 3 comments | Continued
RBA Confirms Aussie Economy Would Enter Recession
What’s changed? Well for one, rising layoffs are having an effect on the real economy. Today’s papers report that mortgage delinquencies are on the rise. Delinquencies on full-documentation loans are still relatively low. Just 1.75% of full-doc loans are more than thirty days past due, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald.
April 2nd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
