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RBA Glossary definition for floating exchange rate
floating exchange rate – Exchange rates determined by market forces based on the demand for and supply of a currency.
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Recent Developments in the Semi-government Bond Market
25 Jan 2024
Bulletin
– January 2024
The market for Australian state and territory government bonds is often referred to as the market for ‘semis’.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2024/jan/recent-developments-in-the-semi-government-bond-market.html
The Economy and the Bank's Policies | Reserve Bank of Australia Annual Report - 1984
30 Jun 1984
Annual Report
With the exchange rate floating, the Bank announced it would not generally intervene but retained discretion to do so; it would enter the market from time to time to test market ... Additionally, monetary policy had to address the uncertain impact of the
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/1984/eco-bank-pol.html
Reserve Bank of Australia Annual Report 2023
16 Oct 2023
RBA Annual Report
- 2023
PDF
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https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2023/pdf/earnings-distribution-and-capital.pdf
Foreign Currency Exposure and Hedging in Australia
16 Mar 2023
Bulletin
– March 2023
The 2022 Survey of Foreign Currency Exposure confirms that Australian entities’ financial positions, in aggregate, are well protected against a depreciation of the Australian dollar.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2023/mar/foreign-currency-exposure-and-hedging-in-australia.html
Statement to Parliamentary Committee
22 Feb 2001
Bulletin
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The domestic economy hasalso benefited because we have not had to putup interest rates in order to maintain ourexternal parity (as in a fixed exchange rate)or to prop up a ... This new less volatile environmentallows the floating exchange rate to do its
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/1999/jan/pdf/bu-0199-3.pdf
Foreign Currency Exposure and Hedging in Australia
10 Feb 2020
Bulletin
December Quarter 2017
PDF
1912KB
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2017/dec/pdf/bu-1217-8-foreign-currency-exposure-and-hedging-in-australia.pdf
Mining Booms and the Australian Economy
18 Mar 2010
Bulletin
PDF
157KB
Address to The Sydney Institute, Sydney, 23 February 2010
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2010/mar/pdf/bu-0310-10.pdf
Foreign Currency Exposure and Hedging in Australia
15 Mar 2023
Bulletin
- March 2023
PDF
832KB
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2023/mar/pdf/foreign-currency-exposure-and-hedging-in-australia.pdf
Australian Financial Markets
10 Jun 2002
Bulletin
– June 2002
One party may have a floating rate liability and will be worried that interest rates will rise (making its obligation more expensive). ... To protect against this eventuality, it can exchange its stream of floating rate payments with a fixed stream so as
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2002/jun/2.html
Film RB A/R 98 EDITORIAL
1 Sep 1998
Annual Report
PDF
269KB
Foreign Exchange Intervention. Australia operates a floating exchange rate regime, which means that theexchange rate is determined by the balance of demand and supply in the marketfor the Australian dollar. ... markets (or the authorities) are rarely
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/1998/pdf/oper-fin-mkts.pdf