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THE RBA has kept the official cash rate on hold at its record low, amid growing signs of a housing slowdown.
THE RBA has kept the official cash rate on hold at its record low, amid growing signs of a housing slowdown.
AUSTRALIA’s cash rate was left unchanged by the RBA today but that’s no reason to ignore what for many households is their largest monthly expense.
THE Reserve Bank has left the official cash rate on hold at its record low of 1.5 per cent, marking one year since the last move.
THE Reserve Bank has kept the official cash rate on hold at 1.5 per cent, but the “days of cheap money could be numbered”.
WESTPAC has followed ANZ in dropping its rates as the home loan war heats up, spelling good news for owner-occupiers. But not all investors will benefit.
THE US Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point for the third time in six months.
THE Reserve Bank has left the official cash rate on hold for its ninth meeting in a row, amid growing signs the property market has peaked.
THE Reserve Bank has kept the official cash rate on hold again today, but this is how you can get an on-the-spot rate drop from your lender.
INTEREST rates paid on savings accounts have dropped to new lows, increasing financial pressure on millions of retirees and first home buyers.
HOME loan customers are expected to be hit by rogue interest rates costing them hundreds of dollars extra each year after the bank levy announcement.
THE US Federal Reserve has left interest rates unchanged while signalling that it expects further rate hikes later this year.
THE Reserve Bank has kept the official cash rate on hold at 1.5 per cent, amid increasing signs the property market has peaked.
WESTPAC has followed the lead of CommBank and today increased fixed rate loans deals, putting more pressure on borrowers’ budgets.
A FRESH surge in house prices has homeowners celebrating and first home buyers despairing, but others are preparing for what is coming next.
THE RBA chief has a sobering warning for those of us who have fallen for the lure of property market riches and interest-only loans.
THE RBA has left the official cash rate on hold at its historic low, but borrowers should brace for the big banks to keep jacking up rates.
RAISE interest rates? CommBank can. Investors and owner-occupiers will both be slugged with rate hikes by the nation’s biggest bank.
THE third of the big four banks has jacked up home loan interest rates for investors, but owner-occupiers have been spared.
COMMBANK and ANZ customers should brace for rate hikes of 20 basis points for investors and up to 10 basis points for owner-occupiers.
ANOTHER of the big four has fired the gun, joining rival NAB in hiking mortgage interest rates for investors and owner-occupiers.
ONE of Australia’s big four banks is jacking up interest rates for investors and owner-occupiers from next week.
THE US Federal Reserve is raising its benchmark interest rate for the second time in three months and signalled further hikes this year.
THE Reserve Bank has left the official cash rate on hold at 1.5 per cent for the seventh month in a row, but home buyers could be in for more pain.
ANALYSIS: While homeowners have been revelling in the record-low interest rates, many Australians have more to lose as the RBA kept rates steady today.
IT’S a great mystery of the world, just like the Bermuda Triangle, Loch Ness monster and Donald Trump’s hair: Where has all the investment income gone?
WHAT does the price of poultry, petrol and postage stamps have to do with your mortgage interest rate? Plenty; so keep an eye on them.
THE RBA has kept the official cash rate on hold at 2 per cent in its first meeting of the year, but economists are tipping further cuts in the coming months.
A RECORD-low cash rate is here to stay in 2016, good news for households who will be able to pay debt off quicker.
MORTGAGE customers are turning to fixed rate loans for the first time in years, but experts warn there are factors to consider before locking rates in.
WHEN Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens invites you over for board meeting and chill, and he actually means chill.
AUSSIES can expect to see no RBA cash rate moves until 2017, helping borrowers cull debt while doing little for savers. But hot deals are still up for grabs.
AUSTRALIANS should expect lower home loan rates to be “the new normal” and stay well below the 50-year average of about seven per cent.
AUSTRALIA is headed for a scorching Christmas, but man who controls your mortgage repayments is keeping it cool as ice.
OWNER occupiers are continuing to be hit by rising interest rates, as more banks follow the big four and increase their costs to borrow.
HOME loan deals are a dog’s breakfast as the gap widens on the different interest rates each borrower is paying. Here’s how you can tell if it’s a good deal.
CONSUMERS fed up with being by gouged by exorbitant credit card interest rates have only a short time left to take action.
BIG banks are lifting their shareholders’ dividend payments while slugging borrowers with interest rate rises. But claim they’re balancing the needs of both.
RETAILERS could be in a for a tougher than expected Christmas after the Reserve Bank of Australia failed to deliver a cash rate cut yesterday.
THE Reserve Bank has left the official cash rate on hold at its record low of 2.0 per cent for the sixth month in a row.
A MELBOURNE Cup Day interest rate cut will be decided in a photo finish today but economists remain divided on whether the cash rate will fall before Christmas.
IT may seem like a better to be loyal to one of the four big banks — but it’s costing Australians more than $6 billion in savings.
THE big banks shouldn’t expect a “leave pass” for hiking up interest rates while the official cash rate is on hold according to Treasurer Scott Morrison.
ANZ is the last of the big four banks to announce it is raising standard variable interest rates for home owners after NAB announced hikes this morning.
WESTPAC stands to make an extra $1.59m a day by raising interest rates on all home loans, in a strategic move made ahead of a likely Melbourne Cup rate cut.
THERE’S more grim news for homeowners this morning, with experts tipping the nation’s biggest lenders will follow Westpac’s lead.
THE chances of a rate cut by the Reserve Bank will increase if the major banks follow Westpac’s lead and lift home loan rates.
WESTPAC is raising its variable mortgage rates next month by 0.2 percentage points to 5.68 per cent with its rivals expected to follow their lead.
THE RBA has left the cash rate on hold for the fifth month in a row — but there’s a simple way you can still save hundreds.
ANZ has broken ranks with its major rivals to predict that stubbornly high unemployment will force the RBA to cut interest rates to a new low.
THE RBA has left the official cash rate on hold at two per cent today again. We explain what you should know if you’ve got a mortgage.
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