Reserve Bank of Australia [RBA] raised mortgage interest rates by 25 basis points to bring the official cash interest rate to 4.0 percent The Reserve Bank of Australia raised mortgage interest rates by 25 basis points to bring the official cash rate to 4.0 percent pa.

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Rick Adlam on February 3rd, 2010

In a shock move the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia has put off any interest rate increases for the time being. The reason seems to be that the Greedy Banks such as Westpac, who had shamelessly hiked home mortgage rates above the last cash rate increase, had done the damage that a rate increase would have done this week, so no rate increase was called for it seems.

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Home loan fact: Last year Wespac snared approaching 30% of all home loan mortgages in Australia. That’s an outstanding volume by any measure. And now it wants to profit on that “in the bank” business .

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National Rate Falls Sharply Monday, According to Zillow® Mortgage Rate Monitor

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Rick Adlam on October 15th, 2009

Banks over the last three years have let leading standards slip, in an effort to compete with non conforming lenders [sub-prime lenders]. This has lead to higher defaults and foreclosures and that is no good for anyone involved. But are the extra credit reporting requirements really necessary?

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