Low unemployment likely to affect rates

Story date: 2007-10-29 01:16:00
Added on: 2007-10-29 05:01:10

Canberra Times - But even in getting the jobless rate to its current 33-year low of 4.2 per cent rate, a tight labour market has been partly to blame for the five interest rate rises since the 2004 election, which has lifted mortgage rates to an 11 year high. And ...


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