Interest rates

The move is part of an effort to fight rising global inflation. If the rates are raised, mortgage payments could rise by over $400 and leave borrowers with an ...

Expect also that the rates will continue to increase but will return instead to the traditional 0.25 percent increases in the coming months as the economy recovers and prices stabilize. [pressure](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-05/rba-rates-increase-ian-verrender-column/101404730) from outside forces like the U.S. The move is part of an effort to fight rising global inflation.

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Super-bubbles in the asset markets, the rise of populism, and inequality are among a host of societal problems caused by low interest rates, according to ...

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By contrast, 24% said the rate rises will be tough, highlighting the uneven impact of monetary policy tightening across Australia.

Grow your savings balance and make 5 eligible purchases with a debit card linked to your Choice account each month. – Promo Rate Bonus Rate “Rates passed on by banks to savers have generally lagged the changes passed onto borrowers. Unloan Home Loan Unloan Comparison Rate Rate In a relief for borrowers, there are interest rates still available below 3.5%. 11% are expected to be better off, thanks to banks passing on higher interest rates for their savings, although not necessarily in full. Specifically, the survey showed that 44% of respondents expect higher interest rates to make no change to their fiscal position.

As the RBA meets to consider the cash rate, analysts warn the impact of previous rises is yet to be felt fully.

With GST and indexing added in to take account of inflation, the increase will be slightly above 25 cents, Treasury confirmed on Monday. Most economists are predicting a 50-basis point increase in the rate to 2.35%, which would bring it to the highest level since December 2014. The RBA is widely expected to raise its cash rate on Tuesday for a fifth time in as many months. The latest weekly data from the Australian Institute of Petroleum said retail unleaded petrol prices averaged 172.9 cents in the week to 4 September, easing from 177.3 cents a week earlier. UBS economists last week said a cash rate peak near 4% would be “too aggressive, as it would likely crash the housing market and drive a recession”. “Taking the cash rate higher would likely generate a hard landing in the economy,” he said.

Investors are primed for another jump in bank profit margins as the Reserve Bank prepares to jack up interest rates again.

The deposit costs for the banks, in a relative sense, are still pretty good,” Martin said. Banks also matched the RBA’s increase on several key deposit products last month, in a sign competition for funds may be heating up. Rates on the big four’s bonus savings accounts, which pay customers more for meeting criteria such as making regular deposits, have increased by more than online savers. A CBA spokeswoman pointed to increases in various savings products in recent months, and said the bank wanted to support customers by increasing select deposit rates. However, that 0.55 percentage point increase in savings rates is a fraction of the 1.75 percentage point lift in official rates over this period, an amount all four banks have passed on to mortgage customers in full. In a trend expected to boost banks’ margins, figures from financial comparison site RateCity show that since the RBA’s decision to push up interest rates in May, the lift in rates on the big four’s online savings and bonus savings products has been significantly lower than that on their home loan interest rates.

Australian shares edged up in choppy trade, with a rise in energy and gold stocks offsetting losses from the banking and tech indexes, while investors ...

This report contained enough good news for the Fed," analysts at Bank of America (BofA)said in a note to clients. This initially cheered investors and helped the S&P 500 index zoom up over 1 per cent. "Russia is not the OPEC’s only geopolitical headache. But financials dropped about 0.4 per cent, with the Big Four banks losing in the range of 0.6 per cent and 0.9 per cent, while the domestic technology stocks lost more than 0.8 per cent. "We continue to expect the Fed to hike by 50 basis points in September and November. The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1.1 per cent each, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.3 per cent. Data showed on Friday that US employers hired more workers than expected in August, but moderate wage growth and a rise in the unemployment rate to 3.7 per cent suggested there could be less pressure on the Federal Reserve to deliver a third 75-basis-point interest rate hike this month. Energy stocks led the gains for the day, climbing as much as 3.9 per cent in their best session in almost a week, tracking higher Brent crude prices ahead of a OPEC meeting, with Woodside Energy and Santos rising 4.3 per cent and 3.1 per cent. Gold stocks jumped 1.5 per cent, their biggest rise in more than a week, as sentiment for the precious metal rebounded due to a weaker dollar, with sector majors like Newcrest Mining and Northern Star Resources gaining 0.8 per cent and 1.2 per cent, respectively. There is also the possibility of a nuclear deal between the US and Iran, that titillates the Saudis," she said. Australian shares edged up in choppy trade, with a rise in energy and gold stocks offsetting losses from the banking and tech indexes, while investors awaited a central bank rate decision to combat pressures from soaring inflation. - Over the first eight months of the year, the ASX has lost 8.2 per cent

The Reserve Bank is expected to raise interest rates by 0.5 percentage points on Tuesday - adding $173 a month to a typical mortgage. And the bank has given ...

CoreLogic data showed a 1.6 per cent decline in national house and unit prices in August - the steepest monthly decline since January 1983 (pictured is a Melbourne auction in April) Calculations based on the cash rate rising by 0.5 percentage points to 2.35 per cent from 1.85 per cent which would see a Commonwealth Bank variable loan for a borrower with a 20 per cent deposit rise to 4.29 per cent from 3.79 per cent The era of the record-low 0.1 per cent cash rate ended in May, with rate rises every month since then adding up to 1.75 percentage points - the steepest since 1994. Interest rates are already rising at the steepest pace in almost three decades. Hobart prices fell 1.7 per cent to $772,443 - the steepest drop since August 1998. CANBERRA: Down 2 per cent to $1,033,377 HOBART: Down 1.7 per cent to $772,443 PERTH: Down 0.2 per cent to $588,308 ADELAIDE: Down 0.2 per cent to $707,364 BRISBANE: Down 2.1 per cent to $864,149 MELBOURNE: Down 1.5 per cent to $948,879 SYDNEY: Down 2.6 per cent to $1,302,635

The Reserve Bank of Australia board is tipped to lift rates again, with another 0.5 percentage point rise likely on the cards.

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The Commonwealth Bank warns there is a "clear risk" that the RBA will lift interest rates too high, too fast because of the lags in how they are passed on ...

"This creates natural tightening even with the RBA on hold (note that the average loan rate for a borrower rolling off a fixed rate loan over the next eighteen months is around 2.25 per cent. "But that will occur in time as the rate hikes 'kick in'. "This interest is added to a borrower's outstanding debt. This rate is significantly lower than the standard variable rate, which is likely to rise to 4.5-5.0 per cent with a cash rate of 2.60 per cent)." "The rapid pace at which the RBA has tightened policy, overlaid with a full appreciation of the lags between rate hikes and the cash flow impact on a home borrower, means there's a degree to which the RBA board is flying blind," he said. "There is a large proportion of fixed rate home loans that will expire over the next 18 months," he said. At CBA, for example, by December the impact of already announced rate rises on monthly cash flow for mortgage holders will be a four-fold increase compared to July." "This means that the bulk of our borrowers have only felt the impact of one 25-basis-point hike on their cash flow (or potentially, as of this week, the cumulative impact of the May 25-basis-point rate hike and June 50-basis-point rate increase)." It is no surprise then that the full effect of the rate hikes the RBA has already delivered are not yet being felt at cash registers across the country. But from a cash flow perspective the impact is not felt for three months on average for a CBA customer. - The RBA is widely expected to raise the cash rate target by 0.5 of a percentage point in September - That means most variable mortgage customers have not yet felt the cash flow effects of at least the last percentage point of rate rises