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Confidence data to provide rate response

Confidence surveys this week will provide a guide to how consumers and businesses are handling rising interest rates and inflation.

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Reserve Bank kills off Frydenberg’s Pollyanna inflation forecasts, as Turnbull intervenes

Both leaders faced scrutiny today on the campaign trail, but it was the Reserve Bank that seized the spotlight again by predicting inflation as far as the eye can see.

Crikey

Real wages to fall by 3% this year as inflation surges, says RBA

Australians’ wages are tipped to grow over the next two years, but are not predicted to catch up with rising prices until 2024

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RBA to do what it takes to fight inflation

The Reserve Bank of Australia has warned that rising interest rates and prices are expected to weigh on household budgets.

Crikey

RBA sets scene for steady rise in rates

The Reserve Bank of Australia has jacked up its inflation forecasts, indicating there will be a steady rise in interest rates for the rest of this year.

AAP

Services grow despite sector difficulties

Australia’s services sector grew in April, despite difficulties finding staff and rising cost pressures, but demand may slow as interest rates rise.

Crikey

Greater Bank, Newcastle Perm make call on RBA rate increase

The Hunter-based lenders say "many" of its customers were prepared for the decision

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The big hack: the banks know it is coming

Australia’s big four banks have just undergone cyber security tests. Good, because the RBA says they are at serious risk of attack.

Crikey

This reckless spending must stop — but it won’t. Not after 2019

Inflation is being exacerbated by reckless federal spending. But Labor doesn’t dare call for an end to it.

Crikey

Laden with ‘world-beating’ debt, Australian households are at increased risk as rates rise, expert says

Policies encouraging property investment have fuelled soaring debt ratio to create ‘big potential problem’, researcher warns

The Guardian - AU

More interest rate hikes are coming, and housing affordability is about to get crunched

Rock-bottom rates provided a buffer to soaring house prices, but that is over. Repaying a mortgage will be harder than ever

The Guardian - AU

Sorry, Scott and Josh, but you do own a chunk of this rate rise

Inflation has been exacerbated by a budget that is pumping tens of billions of deficit spending into a low-unemployment economy.

Crikey

Morning mail: RBA’s shock interest rate rise, Roe v Wade leak authentic, Apra award winners

Wednesday: Federal election campaign brings unease in coal-rich NSW seat of Hunter. Plus: One Nation scrambles for candidates

The Guardian - AU

Retailing in last hurrah before rate rise

The Australian Bureau of Statistics says retail trade rose 1.6 per cent in March to a record $33.6 billion, coming before rising interest rates take their toll.

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The Guardian - AU

Shock interest rate rise shows Australia’s economic exceptionalism is fading

RBA’s decision is, in the words of one economist, ‘a radical revision’. Could this turn a plateauing of property prices into a rout?

Crikey

Spending lost steam even before rate rise

The latest retail spending figures are expected to show a slower pace of growth as the treasurer and his election rival face off in a televised debate.

ABC News

Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, Westpac, NAB to raise variable mortgage rates by 0.25 per cent after RBA rate hike

All of Australia's biggest banks have lifted mortgage rates, matching the Reserve Bank's 25-basis-point increase.

The Conversation

RBA Governor Philip Lowe is hiking interest rates. Worst case, it'll mean an extra $600 per month on a $500,000 mortgage

Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe has announced he will lift the cash rate for the first time in a decade, by 0.25 percentage points, taking it from 0.10% to 0.35%.

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Paying off a mortgage? Here’s how the RBA interest rate rise will affect your repayments

Rise to 0.35% increases median monthly home loan repayment by up to $118, but rates predicted to reach 2% in a year’s time

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Interest Rates Just Rose So What Does This Mean For Your Money, Rent & ‘Ability’ To Buy A Home?

The interest rate in Australia just rose for the first time in a decade. What does this mean for cost of living, rent and first home buyers?

The Conversation

Why the RBA should go easy on interest rate hikes: inflation may already be retreating and going too hard risks a recession

One of the stranger things about the Reserve Bank’s announcement of why it’s lifting interest rates by 0.25 percentage points is that it suggests inflation will come down by itself.

Al Jazeera

Australia hikes interest rates in potential election shakeup

Reserve Bank of Australia’s move means millions of Australians face higher repayments on their home loans.

Crikey

The RBA rate rise leaves the Liberals vulnerable in the suburbs

The Reserve Bank’s inevitable decision to raise interest rates could have serious consequences for the Morrison government in Coalition heartland.

Newcastle Herald

Perm and Greater Bank mull RBA rates rise

The RBA has raised the official cash rate by 25 points to 0.35 per cent

Crikey

Up, up and away: home owners face a year or more of rate rises as central bank bites inflation bullet

The Reserve Bank has lifted interest rates for the first time since 2010, and thus inflicted serious harm on Scott Morrison’s economic credentials.

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