RBA: Stable interest rates; labour market in focus

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RBA Board minutes Reserve Bank Board minutes: Board members continue to expect a period of stability in interest rates. Board members appeared to spend a lot of attention on the... Read more continue reading

Petrol hits 4-month low; ATM use at an 11-year low

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Weekly petrol prices; Credit and debit card lending Petrol prices ease: According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average Australian price of petrol fell by 3.2 cents per... Read more continue reading

Weekly market & economic update – week ending 11 April

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw US, European and Japanese shares fall led by a further decline in technology stocks and this along... Read more continue reading

Global deflation, a dangerous side effective of QE

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Deflation is a very real and mounting threat which must be aggressively combated before it completely derails a global recovery, according to a respected London-based economist. Speaking at van Eyk’s... Read more continue reading

Weekly market & economic update – week ending 4 April, 2014

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week has seen gains in share markets and a further increase in bond yields on the back of mostly... Read more continue reading

Saxo Bank publishes its investment outlook for Q2 2014

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Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist and parent company of Saxo Capital Markets, has published its second quarterly insight for 2014, focusing on the outlook for Europe.... Read more continue reading

Alcohol consumption hits 17-year low

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Alcohol consumption Total apparent consumption of alcohol fell for the sixth straight year, down from 10.04 litres of pure alcohol per person to a 17-year low of 9.88 litres per person... Read more continue reading

Retail Trade – February 2014

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Retail trade rose by 0.2% in February following a spike of 1.2% in January. Annual growth slowed to a still respectable 4.9%. The February result was driven by a lift... Read more continue reading

Home prices record biggest gain in 18 years

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RP Data Rismark Home Prices; PMI Home prices surge: The RP Data – Rismark Home Value Index reported that capital city home prices rose by 2.3 per cent in March –... Read more continue reading