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Australia’s banks may find themselves forced to cut discounts on home loan rates to avoid having to increase their standard variable home loan rates outside the RBA’s changes.

New housing construction is set to stall across Australia, with the brakes applied to the post-GFC recovery after a significant tightening of monetary policy by the Reserve Bank of Australia.

The June quarter 2010 ACCI-Westpac Survey of Industrial Trends showed a marked softening of manufacturers’ General Business Sentiment for the second half of 2010.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has indicated that it will likely keep interest rates on hold until August in the minutes from the June RBA board meeting.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has left official interest rates unchanged at 4.5 percent after its June board meeting, but how long before we see another change?

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) did as expected by analysts at its monthly board meeting today deciding to leave the official cash rate unchanged at 4.5 percent.

House sales in NSW crashed 9.6 percent in April according to the HIA, with buyers reacting strongly to successive interest rate increases from the RBA.

Mortgage owners can breathe a sigh of relief with the Reserve Bank unlikely to raise interest rates above the current 4.5 percent in the RBA’s monthly board meeting tomorrow.

Mortgage owners can breathe a sigh of relief as the Reserve Bank appears unlikely to further raise interest rates above 4.5 per cent in June.

Auction clearance rates have collapsed in three of Australia’s largest markets, after successive interest rate increases from the Reserve Bank. Listings were also down in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.