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Home buyers in Labor scheme more likely to be falling behind: RBA (opens the original)
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The Reserve Bank says first home buyers who accessed the Albanese government’s 5 per cent deposit scheme are more likely than other borrowers to be in negative equity, while low-income households are increasingly forced to sell assets and work extra hours just to get by. Releasing its six-monthly health check on the financial system on Thursday, the RBA found that households overall had enough savings and cash-flow buffers to manage the stress caused by rising interest rates and high inflation,
Inflation jump keeps pressure on RBA to raise rates (opens the original)
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Prices are rising rapidly across vast swaths of the domestic economy, undercutting Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ insistence that the conflict in the Middle East is the central driver of Australia’s inflation challenge, and maintaining pressure on the Reserve Bank of Australia to raise interest rates again. Headline inflation jumped to 4 per cent in August from 3.5 per cent in July on the back of surging petrol and building material costs, while trimmed mean inflation – the RBA’s preferred measure of u
Bullock rebuffs Chalmers’ inflation defence as RBA delivers 15-year rate high (opens the original)
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Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has rebuffed Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ claim that the Middle East conflict is the primary source of Australia’s inflation problem, warning domestic spending remains the key driver of rising prices, and stagnant productivity was only making the problem worse. The nine-member RBA board on Tuesday unanimously agreed to raise the cash rate to a 15-year high of 4.6 per cent as Bullock warned the central bank would lift interest rates again if needed to prevent high
Just one advanced country will have higher rates if RBA hikes (opens the original)
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Australia will have the highest cash rate in the developed world bar one country if Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock delivers an interest rate rise as expected on Tuesday, undercutting the Albanese government’s efforts to convince voters it is helping with the cost of living. Financial markets are certain the nine-member RBA board will deliver its fourth rate rise of the year, after a run of stronger-than-expected data pointed to stubborn domestic inflation pressures and an economy running
Chalmers breaks with Bullock on 5pc unemployment (opens the original)
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has questioned Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock’s suggestion that the unemployment rate may need to rise to 5 per cent to tame inflation, arguing that workers are not to blame for the economy’s inflation problems. “What we have seen is that it’s possible in this country to have lower unemployment than [5 per cent] at the same time as inflation comes off,” Chalmers told reporters on Monday. Gift articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
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