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RBA cuts rates, experts debate next moves

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
As widely anticipated, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) delivered a 0.25% interest rate cut at the August meeting, bringing the official cash rate down to 3.6%. The RBA board noted that the easing in inflation alongside a softening in the labour ...

RBA cut 'highly likely', but caution remains

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2025
... experts are anticipating another interest rate cut to be delivered by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) at its August meeting tomorrow. T. Rowe Price co-portfolio manager of the dynamic global bond strategy Scott Solomon said unlike the last meeting ...

RBA cut all but certain: Experts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... returning sustainably to target," Bruce said. "As such, I expect that the RBA will resume cutting the cash rate at its August meeting with potentially a further cut later in the year if the trends in CPI and the labour market continue to ease. Investors ...

Recession signs: Economic growth has 'ground to a halt'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... the RBA will leave policy on hold at the June board meeting, and with no meeting in July that puts focus on the August meeting; just after the Q2 inflation data is released. "At this stage our forecast for trimmed mean inflation in Q2 24 is 0.8-0.9%/qtr. ...

Latest CPI data provides case for rate pause

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2023
... RBA hoped for, with inflation heading in the right direction," he said. "As the RBA noted in its minutes from its August meeting, there was a credible path back to the inflation target with the cash rate staying at its present level." Betashares chief ...

Further tightening of monetary policy may be required: RBA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023
... to target within a reasonable timeframe, but that this depended on how the economy and inflation evolve." At the August meeting, the RBA said it will have additional data on inflation, the global economy, the labour market, and household spending, as ...

Rate rises more likely after unemployment plunge

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2022
... markedly and no signs of inflation easing, the RBA is likely to raise interest rates by 50 basis points at its August meeting, with several increases potentially following after that depending on how the economy reacts to the mega rate rises of June ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's (RBNZ) bigger than expected 50 bps rate cut to a record low of 1% at its August meeting - that came at about the same time as similarly surprising cuts from the Reserve Bank of India and the Bank of Thailand - while ...

Chief economist update: Race to the bottom redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... surprise. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) cut the official cash rate by 50 bps to a new record low of 1% at its August meeting. This is bigger than market expectations for a 25 bps reduction and followed May's 25 bps rate cut. The Bank of ...

Chief economist update: The grass is paler on the China side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
Just as expected, the Fed's 31 July-1 August meeting was a non-event - keeping the fed funds rate unchanged at 1.75%-20% - but it did give the US central bank a platform to gloat about the US economy. "Information received since the Federal Open ...
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