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Bushfires have devastated communities across Australia, but help is flooding in from business, government and individuals. Big banks and small lenders have been quick to step up with a raft of measures to ease the pressure on affected customers, from waiving fees and deferring repayments to fast-tracking low-interest rebuilding loans….
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The first cash rate decision for 2020 has been announced by the RBA with the rate unchanged at 0.75%, as it assesses the economic threat posed by the bushfire crisis and the coronavirus outbreak. The Reserve Bank will have been encouraged by positive employment, inflation and house price figures and…
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has delivered its final cash rate announcement for the year with the decision to leave the rate unchanged at 0.75%.
Many people believed that the low RBA cash interest rate, that had remained unchanged over the last couple of years, was about as low as it would go.
The history of Australian banking has always been dominated by the big four – ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB and Westpac.