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3 March - The RBA reduced the cash rate to 0.5% (from 0.75%) 19 March - The RBA introduces 4 core changes to support the economy as the COVID-19 pandemic shuts borders and businesses Reduction in the cash rate to 0.25% (down from 0.5%) Targeting the yield of the 3 year bond at 0.25%, through the commencement of bond buying
The Chained Consumer Price Index C-CPI-U, a chained index, has been introduced. The C-CPI-U tries to mitigate the substitution bias that is encountered in CPI-W and CPI-U by employing a Tornqvist formula and utilizing expenditure data in adjacent time periods in order to reflect the effect of any substitution that consumers make across item ...
The average Australian property price grew 0.5% per year from 1890 to 1990 after inflation, [1] however rose from 1990 to 2017 at a faster rate. House prices in Australia receive considerable attention from the media and the Reserve Bank [ 2 ] and some commentators have argued that there is an Australian property bubble .
The shelter category of CPI — which accounts for 30% of overall CPI and 40% of the core reading — increased 0.8% over the month and 7.5% over the last year, comprising more than half of the ...
A CPI is a statistical estimate constructed using the prices of a sample of representative items whose prices are collected periodically. Sub-indices and sub-sub-indices can be computed for different categories and sub-categories of goods and services, which are combined to produce the overall index with weights reflecting their shares in the total of the consumer expenditures covered by the ...
Over the last three decades the proportion of Australians in public housing has halved, whilst the amount renting privately has grown. [1] [2] The average weekly price for a rental in Australia is $570 AUD. [3] Sydney has the most expensive capital city rents. [4] Rental rates have increased faster than inflation in recent years. [3] [5]
The United States Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a price index that is based on the idea of a cost-of-living index. The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) explains the differences: The CPI frequently is called a cost-of-living index, but it differs in important ways from a complete cost-of-living measure.
Since the 1980s, tariffs have steadily been reduced; in early 2010, the tariffs were reduced from 17.5 to 10 percent on clothing, and 7.5–10% to 5% for footwear and other textiles. [44] As of 2010, most textile manufacturing, even by Australian companies, is performed in Asia.