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Michael Janda

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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Michael Janda

    RBA relaxed about housing downturn, deeply worried by AI and bonds (opens the original)

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    The RBA estimates less than 2 per cent of owner-occupier mortgage borrowers have a cash flow shortfall, while most have large offset or redraw buffers. It is concerned about "circular financing" and increasing borrowing to fund the AI boom, as well as a spike in government bond yields. The RBA Monetary Policy Board will announce its next interest rate decision on November 3. Despite Australia's rapid housing downturn, which threatens to be the worst in decades, the Reserve Bank believes the main

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Michael Janda

    Borrowers again 'hit over the head' to bring inflation down (opens the original)

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    Why is Australia stuck in an inflation problem that has sent interest rates to 15-year highs? If you listen only to the opposition, some economic commentators, and sections of the press, it's entirely down to government financial mismanagement at the federal and state levels. If, instead, you choose to listen to the person most responsible for your mortgage rate, it's a bit of everything all at once. "The bottom line is that there are a number of pressures all bearing down on inflation at the mo

  3. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Michael Janda

    RBA tipped to hike rates on Tuesday (opens the original)

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    The Reserve Bank is meeting tomorrow for the sixth time this year, and both financial markets and economists think it is almost certain it will raise interest rates for the fourth time. Another standard 25-basis-point rate hike tomorrow would take the RBA's cash rate target from 4.35 per cent to 4.6 per cent, the highest level since the start of November 2011. So, how does the bank make its decision, what does it mean for your mortgage and how much higher do experts think interest rates might go

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Michael Janda

    Each rate rise locking aspiring homebuyers out for a decade, study finds (opens the original)

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    A rate rise is estimated to cause an immediate 5 per cent reduction in home purchases. Economic modelling suggests the home ownership rate would fall by 0.3 of a percentage point and take more than a decade to recover. The RBA will announce its next interest rate decision on Tuesday, September 29, with markets and economists almost certain of a rate rise. Each standard interest rate increase could be locking close to 30,000 households out of home ownership, some of them for more than a decade, r

  5. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Michael Janda

    RBA leaders warn that interest rates are just back to 'sensible level' (opens the original)

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    RBA deputy governor Andrew Hauser said, "We're probably rather closer now to a more sensible level of long-term global real interest rates than we were a year or two ago." More economists have joined financial markets in tipping a September rate hike, with the possibility of another in November. The RBA's Monetary Policy Board will meet on September 28-29 to determine the next move in the cash rate target. Economists believe that the Reserve Bank's senior officials have decided that interest rat

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