FINANCIAL STABILITY REVIEW – MARCH 2008

Contents

Overview

The Global Financial Environment

Box A: Financial Guaranty Insurers (Monolines)

Box B: The ABX.HE Credit Default Swap Indices

The Australian Financial System

Household and Business Balance Sheets

Box C: Survey-based Indicators of Household Finances

Box D: Market Risk in the Household Asset Portfolio

Developments in the Financial System Infrastructure

List of graphs

List of tables

List of figures

The material in this Financial Stability Review was finalised on 25 March 2008.

The Financial Stability Review is published semi-annually in March and September.
It is available on the Reserve Bank's website (www.rba.gov.au)

The Review uses data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, which was initiated and is funded by the Australian Government Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA), and is managed by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (MIAESR). The findings and views reported in this publication should not be attributed to either FaCSIA or the MIAESR. For copyright and disclaimer notices relating to data in the Review see the Bank’s website.

For copyright and disclaimer notices relating to data in the Review see the Reserve Bank’s website.

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ISSN 1449–5260 (Online)

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