Posts tagged "reserve bank"

Wages may not be rising to meet inflation, but figures from the RBA remind us that wages don't tell the whole story.

Chalmers offered in-principle agreement to all 51 of the panel’s recommendations and said he would be seeking support from the Opposition for any legislation needed to implement them.

The RBA's latest growth forecasts make for grim reading, especially after lifting interest rates for a record nine times in a row.

The latest 0.25 percentage point rise adds $90 a month to a $600,000 variable mortgage.

In recent years, housing became more expensive at a faster rate than essentially everything else. Is there more room for prices to drop?

The RBA has some interesting things to say about the possibility of how digital currency could work as an official, central bank-issued part of Australia's financial system.

Rising interest rates are meant to encourage saving. But our high savings buffer means we're still spending freely while inflation rises.

You might not know it from reading Tuesday’s statement announcing Australia’s eighth consecutive increase in interest rates, but our Reserve Bank might finally have done enough.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has lifted the lid on a crippling outage that halted transactions flowing through the New Payments Platform in mid-October.

There are several reasons to think Australia might be able to escape a global slide into recession — though it will need careful management.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has substantively shifted its position on how banks and credit card schemes prioritise their products in mobile wallet Apple Pay.

Our employment market is running hot, even if no one is getting wage rises. And that means there'll be a lot more interest rate increases to come.