First week of QE notches up $21bn for cheaper borrowing (Australian Financial Review)

27 March 2020

The Reserve Bank has spent $21 billion in the country's first week of quantitative easing in an effort to reduce borrowing costs for companies and the government, and to restore order to a huge selloff in bond markets.

Queensland-based Firstmac was the first beneficiary of the government’s $15 billion Structured Finance Support Fund to provide support to non-bank lenders.

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