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Ian Macfarlane

October 2020

Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe.

Nothing more to squeeze from monetary policy

Former Reserve Bank governor Ian Macfarlane says that monetary policy has 'used up all its power and there isn’t any more room'. We agree.

  • The AFR View

June 2020

ASX closes up; Appen chairman, CEO sell shares worth $61m

The S&P/ASX200 rose 0.8 per cent and notched up a fourth consecutive day of gains despite not holding above 6000 points. $A struggles to hold US69c after retail sales plunged a record 17.7 per cent in April. Ten-year bond yield breaks above 1 per cent.

  • Robert Guy, Vesna Poljak, Sarah Turner and William McInnes

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