Interest Rates

The RBA’s governor has doubled down on the board’s decisions to lift interest rates, arguing its necessity to avoid a recession.

This week saw another cash rate cut of 25 bps, which many lenders had already anticipated amid the heightened competitive landscape, leading them to start cutting interest rates last week in ...

The competition watchdog is prioritising compliance and enforcement activities to improve open banking data, particularly when it comes to incorrect interest rates and missing data.

Despite consistent growth in regional housing values over the past five months, the impact of rising interest rates is becoming apparent in several regional markets.

As the Reserve Bank’s August monetary policy meeting approaches, lenders are becoming increasingly competitive, with many dropping rates into the 4s.

Australian households begin to feel the impact of consecutive interest rate hikes.

While the drop in employment growth is expected to weigh on the RBA’s policy deliberations for February, next week’s inflation data would be a stronger indicator, economists have tipped

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People can’t pay the same prices for properties now as borrowing capacities become a bigger problem, a PropTrack executive has explained.

Positive growth for mortgage demand has been recorded for the first time in two years, Equifax has found.

Home loan and savings rates continue being adjusted after the latest 25-bp cash rate rise, non-major banks have announced.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has lifted the benchmark interest rate to 2 per cent, as it tries to get a handle on surging inflation.

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s November rate hike will put further pressure on mortgagors, according to Hume Bank chief executive Stephen Capello. 

Household financial stress will ratchet higher as rates increase and would then be impacted by any downturn in the labour market, Westpac Bank has warned.

Philip Lowe has said that arrears rates and inflows and outflows to offset accounts are key datasets the RBA considers when determining rate movements.