Empower Blog Interest Rates

RBA Rates Decision – April 2009

The Reserve Bank announced today that the Cash Rate would be cut by 25 basis points to 3.00%. This decision brings rate to record lows, as Australia’s economy moves into recession, after a record period of economic growth. The big question is will the banks be passing on any of this latest cut, as they are still claiming the costs of funds ...

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RBA Rates Decision – March 2009

Today the RBA announced it will keep interest rates on hold for the month of march @ 3.25% In these interesting times it has only taken the RBA since September 2008 to drop the cash rate by 4.5%, when in the last tightening cycle it took them just under 6 years to raise the cash rates 3%, so maybe such a dramatic reduction to date is allowing th...

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RBA Rates Decision – February 2009

Following its first board meeting of the year, the Reserve Bank has slashed interest rates by 1 full basis point bringing the cash rate down to just 3.25% This is the 4th consecutive cut since September last year bringing the cash rate down a total of 3.75 basis points in just 5 months – the most dramatic drop in history. Let’s wait and s...

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