RBA holds rates ahead of Trump’s day of reckoning
RBA board holds cash rate at 4.1pc, ‘did not explicitly discuss rate cuts’ says Bullock as focus shifts to May. ASX lifts 1pc. Housing groups welcome Coalition promise to drop mortgage buffer.
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ASX 200 mostly erases gain as ANZ dives; Gold Road top gainer
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ASX 200’s best day in six weeks
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ASX 200 back in the red; MinRes down
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‘Within seconds there was a dolphin right underneath me’
Canberra musician Sally Walker could not believe what happened when she played her flute on the water in Port Stephens.
Retaliatory tariffs a ‘Dumb and Dumber’ move
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