From: Broad Finance [info@broadfinance.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 5 October 2010 12:09 PM
To: Carina Porter
Subject: Broad Finance - Interest Rate Bulletin October 2010
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RBA Rate Bulletin

Esther Porter, Carina Porter, Charmain Hughes, Mandy Sofoulis, Sandra Hanna, Tracey Bloffwitch & Frank West
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RBA Leaves Official Cash Rate Unchanged

At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 4.5 per cent.


Statement by Glenn Stevens, Governor Monetary Policy RBA

The global economy grew faster than trend over the year to mid 2010, but will probably ease back to about trend pace over the coming year. Recent information is consistent with a more sustainable, but still strong, pace of growth in China and most of the Asian region. In Europe and the United States, growth prospects appear to be modest in the near term, a legacy of the financial crisis and its impact on private and public finances. Financial markets are still characterised by a degree of uncertainty, and are responding both to differences in growth outlooks between regions and evident strains on public finances and banking systems in several smaller countries in Europe. Most commodity prices have changed little over recent months, and those most important to Australia remain very high.

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