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Financial Stability Review March 2005

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Contents

  • Overview
  • The Macroeconomic and Financial Environment
  • Box A: A Disaggregated Analysis of Household Financial Exposures
  • Financial Intermediaries
  • Box B: Variable Interest Rates on Housing Loans
  • Box C: Non-conforming Housing Loans
  • Box D: Estimates of Borrowing Capacity from Banks' Online Housing Loan Calculators
  • Developments in the Financial System Infrastructure
  • Box E: Financial Soundness Indicators

Article

  • How Do Australian Businesses Raise Debt?
  • List of graphs
  • List of tables

The material in this Financial Stability Review was finalised on 18 March 2005.

ISSN 1449–3896 (Print)
ISSN 1449–5260 (Online)

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