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The Dutch Tulip (1630s), South Sea (1720), Japan’s Real Estate and Stock Market (1980s), The Dotcom (1990s), and US Housing (mid 2000s) Bubbles combined together and many times more, have nothing on the US and World Debt Bubble (2021? 2022?... Read more
On 9 March 2020, the 10-year Commonwealth government bond yield was 0.555%. When the Reserve Bank joined the Federal Reserve and other central banks to be the buyer of last resort (as well as the lender of last resort), the... Read more
We thought someone ought to make comparing home loans and lenders easier, so we gave it a fair dinkum go. No fine print, no need to sort through seemingly endless loan information, no need to give up any personal information.... Read more
Without a doubt, the best 5-year fixed interest rate is Newcastle Permanent Building Society’s 1.99%. Also, they rate highly in our lender ratings with a score a TCSL of 96/100. Visit creditbroker.com.au. It compelled us to number crunch and calculate... Read more
THE UNKINDNESS CUT POST RBA On 3 November 2020, the Reserve Bank announced a reduction in the cash rate, 3-year yield target, and the interest rate on new drawings under the Term Funding Facility to 0.10% from 0.25%. It... Read more
It’s the colour of the money the RBA may print rather than the size of any interest rate cut that will matter the most on Melbourne Cup day, Tuesday, 3 November 2020. The bond market has priced in a... Read more
The interest rate swap (IRS) market is pricing an approximate 0.15% cut in the Official Cash rate by the Reserve Bank on Tuesday, 3 November 2020, but with keener expectations than for the October 2020 meeting. Interpreting the implied... Read more
Central Banks around the world, led by the Federal Reserve, are not only the Lenders of Last Resort but are now the Bonds Buyers of Last Resort as well. With the great chase of yield, the Interest Rate Swap Rates... Read more
Back on 20 March 2020 (last RBA interest rate cut) the bond market’s expectations was that the Reserve Bank was to keep interest rates at or below 0.25% for just under 2 years. As of 30 September 2020, and with... Read more
The bond market, especially the very long end of the bond market (10 years and over), is very susceptable to a significant sell off because of the re-inflation risks taken by the Federal Reserve and other Central Banks. Staglfation may... Read more