Analysis
What happens if interest rates hit zero? The Reserve Bank’s new computer model has some ideas, writes Isaac Gross.
News
The competition watchdog is launching an investigation into why the big four banks are not passing on interest rate cuts in full to customers.
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The Reserve Bank cut interest rates – and may do so again within months – because nervous Australians aren’t getting pay rises, and aren’t spending enough to turn around dismal economic figures, says Peter Martin.
Consumer confidence increased over the weekend amid talk of a cut to interest rates while inflation expectations fell, an ANZ analyst says.
Westpac’s major rivals may not rush to follow the lender’s move to raise mortgage rates, with regulators’ glare and the threat of an increased bank levy keeping them on hold, according to one leading analyst.
The board of the Reserve Bank believe that their next interest rate move is likely to be a hike, though it may be some time to come.
