Australia: Home Loans
The amount of new home loans approvals rose for an eights successive month in November.
Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that number of granted loans grew to a seasonally adjusted 1.4%, after 0.7% amounted in previous month.
Only 1% of increase was expected by analysts.
Also Australian Central Bank decided to lower interest rate by 0.25% for the first time since 2009.
The AUD slightly reacted after the news.