Posts tagged "business interest rates"

If the Reserve Bank does push up interest rates again, the most likely next date is its next board meeting, on Melbourne Cup Tuesday.

The RBA’s latest forecasts now assume no further rate rises will be needed for inflation to fall back to the central bank’s 2-3% target range by mid-2025.

The decision to hike interest rates again after a month on pause has raised concerns the Reserve Bank could nudge the economy into a recession.

Small business demand for non-bank lending solutions has risen 50% over the last year, business lender ScotPac says, suggesting the time and effort required to obtain traditional financing, along with rising interest rates, are causing entrepreneurs to look further afield.

Inflation is likely to keep easing as both the “headline” and “trimmed mean” measures are heading in the right direction.

Unemployment has barely budged even as the central bankers do all they can to cool the economy.

The RBA has been relying on house prices falling to help reduce consumption and lower inflation. The bank has left itself the option to lift interest rates next time it meets, in early May.

Why aren’t banks lending? Why aren’t small businesses taking advantage of record low rates? And will this change in 2021?

It’d be wrong to interpret the Reserve Bank's decision to cut its cash rate to 0.10% as an emergency response to the COVID-19 crisis.

ANZ has won plaudits for going beyond the Reserve Bank’s rate cut to slash 27 basis points from its variable mortgage rate, but businesses w…