The Latest Breaking News from Interest Rates

How many more interest rate hikes? RBA boss Philip Lowe gives clues

Home owners will be slugged with another mortgage bill squeeze after the Reserve Bank raised its interest rates for the 10th time in a row.

The New Daily · Mar 7, 2023

Higher interest rates aren't just affecting home owners — fewer cheap rentals are available

Experts have described the latest figures from the PropTrack Market Insight Report as "really worrying". Here's a breakdown of the data and how you may be affected, depending on where you live.

ABC News · Mar 7, 2023

Powell to face Senate grilling on Fed rates and inflation

If measures of the U.S. economy keep coming in hot, as they did in January, the Federal Reserve will likely have to raise interest rates even higher than it has already signaled — and keep them there longer — Chair Jerome Powell will likely warn in testimony to Congress on…

The Independent UK · Mar 7, 2023

Reserve Bank of Australia raises interest rates to 11-year high, opens the door to a pause

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raises interest rates for the 10th consecutive meeting, taking the cash rate target to 3.6 per cent.

ABC News · Mar 7, 2023

Another rate hike expected to fight stubborn inflation

The Reserve Bank is tipped to hike interest rates for the 10th time in succession and inflict further pain on already-stretched Australian households. The

The New Daily · Mar 6, 2023

The Reserve Bank is tipped to raise interest rates again, even as some families struggle to meet higher home loan repayments

Australia's major banks expect the Reserve Bank will lift the cash rate to its highest level since May 2012 later today, but thousands of families like Le Tran's are already having to make sacrifices to make ends meet.

ABC News · Mar 6, 2023

3 Hot Dividend Stocks to Buy Now and Hold Forever

Due to a barrage of strong macroeconomic data, the Federal Reserve has expressed the need to keep interest rates elevated. This is expected to keep the market volatile. Amid this backdrop, it might be wise to buy fundamentally strong dividend stocks Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Novartis (NVS), and ARC Document…

StockNews.com · Mar 6, 2023

Budget ‘could bring disability benefit reform to push people back to work’

Jeremy Hunt will reveal Spring Budget on 15 March as country battles soaring inflation, rising interest rates and high food prices

The Independent UK · Mar 6, 2023

3 Top-Tier Stocks to Buy with $200

The Fed has affirmed its commitment to keep interest rates elevated. With an end to interest rate hikes not in sight, the major market indexes are expected to face further volatility in the upcoming months. Therefore, it could be wise to buy fundamentally strong stocks, The Coca-Cola Company (KO), Centene…

StockNews.com · Mar 6, 2023

Interest rate rises: is there a less painful way to curb inflation?

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s monetary policy has been criticised as unfair and ‘too blunt’. But what are the alternatives?

The Guardian - AU · Mar 6, 2023