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Some "inside-baseball" monetary policy machinations were revealed by the RBA yesterday, which banks and other expert RBA watchers summarise as the central bank...

The RBA should continue to wind back the policy stimulus delivered during the pandemic when it meets next month. The RBA will stop buying government bonds and there is...

Folks are starting to turn their minds to what life looks like after the end of the RBA's bond purchase program. There's a fairly robust consensus that Martin Place...

The market has become obsessed with the word ‘taper’, as it does with jargon from time to time, overusing a word from the Queen’s good English. As my writer wife...

In the AFR I write that after months of debate about whether the Reserve Bank of Australia would increase or decrease its stimulus in recognition of the COVID-induced...

There has been very big news today for both the government and bank bond markets in what would have come as a significant shock to the banking system and almost all...

After two consecutive months of surprises provoked by the RBA trying (unsuccessfully) to shift from its prior posture of data-dependent "nowcasting" to boldly...

The RBA "taper vs non-taper" decision for its bond purchase, or quantitative easing (QE), program will be resolved in September with many banks (eg, UBS, DB, CBA,...

I don't want to get back into the speculation game of what the RBA does or does not do in September. I've covered this territory before --- with the surprising move...

Interesting thoughts here from UBS on the RBA's QE program (see below), which reflects the emerging consensus, although I would personally like to secure some more...