
The local share market has dropped to a six-week low after the Reserve Bank kept interest rates unchanged and suggested it was in no hurry to adjust them in either direction.
The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index on Tuesday fell for the fifth time in the past six sessions, dropping 81.1 points, or 0.91 per cent, to 8,813.7, while the broader All Ordinaries slid 84.3 points, or 0.92 per cent, to 9,098.2.