Australian Interest Rates

Rain, hail or shine, investors must make investment decisions for the betterment of their holdings. But when a record bull market looks set to falter, hitting...

The RBA needs to tread warily, says Andrew McAuley of Credit Suisse. Read through for his analysis of where mortgage rates could sit if the RBA goes too hard too early.

A few weeks ago, it would have been fair to say that we were probably set for a number of interest rate increases this year. Fast forward to where we are now and a...

The RBA continued to keep rates on hold this month even though Inflation picked up more quickly than they expected. The length of time it took to resolve supply chain...

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) balance sheet tightening in 2023 may frame its window to hike rates, since it gives a natural pause to see the effect of...

The last time Australia’s official cash rate had a five in front of it, the world was going through the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Within the...

One of the larger fixed-income anomalies observed in 2021 was the record increase in the spread between interest rate swaps and Commonwealth government bond yields,...

In our 2019 market insight titled ‘Federal Funds Rate projections. They expect what???’, we covered what the US Federal Reserve’s expectations for interest rate...

Much has been written about how a deterioration in residential mortgage lending standards, questionable structuring and indiscriminate buying of AAA-rated bonds led...

We believe there are growing risks to the credit spreads of financials, despite what market sentiment might suggest. This is technical in nature rather than...