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'Prepare for more interest rate pain'
RISING house prices and credit demand could sway the RBA to lift its official cash rate next week.
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Top ways to cut your bank fees
A FEW simple changes to your banking habits can add up to big savings, write David and Libby Koch.
Read MoreWant a 100pc mortgage? Not likely
INQUIRIES for 100 per cent home loans have surged 250 per cent since the Federal Government's more generous first home owners grant ceased at the end of last year.
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Huge profit margins on bank penalty fees
BANKS have been making profit margins of up to 14,000 per cent on controversial exception fees.
Savers deny banks $150m in ATM fees
CUSTOMERS have cut usage of "foreign" cash machines by more than 73 million transactions.
Revealed: The interest-only home loan
HOMEBUYERS are to be offered never-ending mortgages in a bid to overcome Australia's affordability crisis.
Bank customers swindled by scam website
POLICE try to shut down a site that tricked at least 50 people into disclosing Westpac passwords.
Optimism killed by threat of rate rises
AUSTRALIANS are becoming more pessimistic about the economy and are gripped by fear of rising interest rates, survey reveals.
Bank workers join fight against fees
PEEVED bank staff are among those wanting to join the nation's biggest class action.
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Bargain hunters drive up sharemarket
THE Australian sharemarket closed higher, driven by bargain hunters among the big miners and banks.
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