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• Aussie Jobs Surge

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 620
  A chill crept over the dollar bulls overnight, when Australia announced their latest jobs data. Since that time, the dollar has been sold – albeit not frantically, but sold nonetheless, and the high yielders, like Aussie dollars ( AUD ), have been the main destination of those funds created from the dollar sales. ...
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• Forex Daily Outlook – December 10th 2009

  
  Forex Crunch — Authority: 139
  Get ready for one of the busiest days: rate decisions in Britain and Switzerland, employment numbers in the US and Australia, and much more. Here goes:Image credit: Vlastula on FlickrAustralia’s MI Inflation Expectations start the day with an expected steady rise. This is only a warm up to the bigger release: the ...
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• Costs haven’t risen as much as banks think - Stevens

  
  Lending Central — Authority: 138
  Bank funding costs may have risen but maybe not as much as the big four banks think, Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens says.At a Q and A session in Sydney on Tuesday, Mr Stevens said the problem with the debate on funding costs “is that people talk a different language”.“A lot of bankers talk spreads,” [...]
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• RBA chief says outlook for financial system better than last year

  
  Lending Central — Authority: 138
  The central bank says the outlook for the global financial system is less worrying than it was a year ago at the height of the global financial crisis, but there are still challenges ahead.Regulators will have their work cut out trying to adapt supervisory frameworks to reduce the chances of a repeat of the fallout ...
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• Mortgage rates could be over eight per cent in 2011

  
  Lending Central — Authority: 138
  Homeowners could face mortgage rates of over eight per cent in two years time based on economists’ predictions on the outlook for the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) cash rate.New data released on Tuesday suggests economic growth will be fairly limp when the national accounts are released next week due to ...
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• Rates to rise over next two years, economists say

  
  Lending Central — Authority: 138
  Homeowners face steadily rising interest rates during the next two years with the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) cash rate reaching 5.5 per cent in 2011, economists say.The results of the Australian Business Economists (ABE) annual forecasting survey, released on Tuesday, forecast the cash rate to reach 4.75 per ...
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• Stevens Optimistic about Australian Economic Outlook

  
  Forex Trading Education : Forex Trading Blog by FOREXYARD — Authority: 137
  RBA Governor Stevens spoke in Sidney today, sounding quite optimistic as to the state of the Australian economic recovery. He also hinted at further room for interest rate increases, stating that “the fundamental problem is actually that financial conditions are just too easy — that is, interest rates are too low ...
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• Forex Daily Outlook – December 8th 2009

  
  Forex Crunch — Authority: 139
  No significant American indicators are predicted today, but elsewhere, the calendar is busy: a rate decision in Canada, Final GDP in Japan, and the unofficial but accurate GDP estimate in Britain. Let’s see what’s up for today:Image credit: Vlastula on FlickrBritish BRC Retail Sales Monitor start the day. After a ...
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• Opinion: Will the next Trans-Tasman exodus be term deposit savings?

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  By Bernard Hickey New Zealanders talk and worry a lot about the exodus of our best and brightest people across the Tasman, but the next exodus may be of term deposit savings chasing higher interest rates in Australia. The authorities were worried enough about a potential exodus to Australia in the those dark days ...
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• Dont Take a Mortgage Interest Rate Rise Without a Fight

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 160
  The same requirements – and restrictions – apply to all home mortgage lenders. Although many people believe re-financing a home mortgage is costly and inconvenient, simply reducing your interest rate by a quarter percent can save $15000 ...
  6 days ago

• Forex Weekly Outlook – December 7-11

  
  Forex Crunch — Authority: 139
  Non-Farm Payrolls brought an excellent surprise to the dollar. In the upcoming week we’ll indeed see if the tables have turned. Rate decisions are expected this week in Britain, Switzerland, Canada and New Zealand. Also note employment figures in Australia and American Retail Sales to close the week. Thursday is an ...
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• Fixed rate home loans out of favour despite RBA’s rate rise

  
  Lending Central — Authority: 138
  A decline in the number of homebuyers choosing fixed interest rate mortgages suggest households are far more influenced by the present state of their budgets than the risk of rising rates.Major mortgage broker Australian Finance Group (AFG) released data on Wednesday showing the mortgages it wrote in November recorded ...
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• Market doubtful but RBA likely to press on in February

  
  Lending Central — Authority: 138
  The debt futures market says there is a less than 50 per cent chance the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will raise interest rates against at its next opportunity.And the next opportunity is two months from now, when the RBA’s board holds its next monetary policy meeting following the usual January hiatus.Those odds ...
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• Westpac’s rate rise spotlights big four’s growing pricing power

  
  Lending Central — Authority: 138
  Westpac Banking Corporation has hiked its standard variable lending rate by almost double the amount of the central bank’s increase, shining a spotlight on the burgeoning pricing power of the major banks.Australia’s second biggest home loan lender on Tuesday delivered a bigger than expected interest rate rise, ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Gold Hits $1,200

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 620
  Well… It’s another “risk on” day, at this point after the overnight sessions of Asia and Europe. Although there seemed to be some traders that wanted to exit risk assets… The moves were strange. Traders in the overnight markets allowed the Big Dog euro ( EUR ) to remain above 1.51, which it scaled to ...
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• AUD/USD rising gradually with the rates

  
  Forex Crunch — Authority: 139
  The Australian got another boost from the third consecutive rate hike yesterday. After getting a blow from the Dubai crisis, the good fundamentals and the 3.75% interest rate send it higher. Will these gains survive bad Non-Farm Payrolls?The Aussie continues to enjoy good fundamentals.A third consecutive rate hike was ...
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• Global Growth Is in Swing

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 642
  Front and center, The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) did indeed raise interest rates last night (their December 1st!), India’s economy posted a strong third quarter, and China posted a strong manufacturing number… And! The Dubai thing is waning… But I want to talk to you about something that I...
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• Global Growth Gets Supporting Data

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 620
  Front and center, The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) did indeed raise interest rates last night (their December 1st!), India’s economy posted a strong third quarter, and China posted a strong manufacturing number… And! The Dubai thing is waning… But I want to talk to you about something that I wrote in the ...
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• Australia raises interest rates again

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Sydney, Dec 1 (DPA) The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Tuesday raised interest rates 25 basis points to 3.75 percent to choke off inflationary pressure as the economy gains momentum.It was the third month in a row that the RBA has hiked rates by one-quarter of 1 percent.“Despite the volatility in financial markets ...
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