Cash rate

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Finance • 09 DEC 2025
RBA ‘grinches’ Christmas: No more rate cuts this year
At its final meeting of the year, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has held the cash rate steady, keeping borrowing costs elevated and maintaining a cautious...
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Finance • 26 NOV 2025
CPI figures extinguish rate hopes, but more pain is on the horizon
Opinion: Today’s inflation figures have all but destroyed any hope of an interest rate cut for those millions of Australians in mortgage stress. And I fear the worst...
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Finance • 04 NOV 2025
Racing ahead: RBA delivers latest cash rate update
The central bank has announced today’s cash rate target on Melbourne Cup day, concluding its seventh monetary policy meeting of the year.
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Finance • 24 JUL 2025
RBA explains shock cash rate decision
The Reserve Bank has revealed why it chose to hold interest rates this month in its minutes for the July monetary policy meeting.
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Finance • 09 JUL 2025
RBA pauses, investors brace for August shift
Although the Reserve Bank of Australia’s July rate hold disappoints mortgage holders, industry experts remain hopeful for a potential rate cut in August.
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Finance • 01 JUL 2025
To rate cut or not? That is the question
After inflation eased, three of Australia’s four major banks have predicted a rate cut in July, though the RBA’s decision remains uncertain.
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Finance • 21 FEB 2025
Over 50 lenders to pass rate cut in full
More than 50 lenders, including the “big four”, have announced plans to cut variable home loan rates by 0.25 percentage points following the Reserve Bank of...
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Finance • 24 JAN 2025
Rate cuts will still leave borrowers wanting: CoreLogic
As the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) first cash rate decision for 2025 draws closer, an industry expert has warned that a much-awaited interest rate cut could have...
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Hotspots • 05 OCT 2023
RBA enacts 5th hold for 2023, but are we in the clear?
It was the first cash rate hold in the post-Philip Lowe era, but does the outcome of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) October meeting signal the end of the rate...
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Hotspots • 03 OCT 2023
Reprieve or rise? RBA hands down anticipated October cash rate decision
Australia’s central bank has handed out its October cash rate decision at its monthly board meeting.
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Hotspots • 28 SEP 2023
Cash rate calm urged as inflation rises again
Inflation is on the rise again, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) most recent Consumer Price Index (CPI), but is the lift enough to inspire...
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Hotspots • 07 SEP 2023
How will the market respond to 3 successive cash rate holds?
In what was his final ever board meeting as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor, Philip Lowe said the central bank’s decision to hold the cash rate indicates...
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Hotspots • 07 OCT 2020
Rate cuts possible on Melbourne Cup Day: expert
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) could be looking to adjust official interest rates on Melbourne Cup Day for the first time in more than a decade, according...
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Hotspots • 29 SEP 2020
RBA rate cut won’t help economy
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) reducing official interest rates from their current record lows will provide some relief for mortgage holders but may not make much...
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Finance • 04 DEC 2018
Final 2018 cash rate call revealed
The Reserve Bank has today revealed the outcome of its monthly board meeting, following over two years of no movement.
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Finance • 26 NOV 2018
41% of mortgage holders ignore cash rates
A fresh report has claimed that, of Australia’s population, property investors are a part of the chosen few who are enlightened when it comes to ‘financial...
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Finance • 06 NOV 2018
RBA reveals cash rate decision for November
The Reserve Bank has today revealed the outcome of its monthly board meeting,  after persisting with a record lower-for-longer environment.
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Finance • 02 NOV 2018
Cash rate predictions are in: How low can they go?
With the RBA’s cash rate decision coming up on Tuesday, we ask economic experts what their take is on the next rate movement. They reveal what the impact of the...
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Finance • 02 OCT 2018
What did the RBA decide with cash rates this month?
The Reserve Bank of Australia has announced its cash rate decision for October following its monthly board meeting.
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Finance • 05 JUL 2016
Reserve Bank decides on cash rate
The Reserve Bank of Australia has delivered the decision of its monthly board meeting.
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Finance • 07 OCT 2014
Rate hikes loom ahead
A panel of financial experts has warned rates are likely to rise for the next three years, putting upwards pressure on investors’ repayments.
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Finance • 02 SEP 2014
RBA makes cash rate announcement - September 2014
The Reserve Bank of Australia has announced the outcome of its monthly board meeting.
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