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RBA feels 'not enough has changed'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
... strong on its standpoint that an interest rate cut is not yet on the cards, as it released minutes from the September meeting. The board said that while inflation had been slowly coming back into the target range, it was still a long way off where the ...

Inflation cools but RBA unlikely to budge

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
... latest inflation data comes after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the cash rate on hold at 4.35% at the September meeting yesterday. Despite cooling inflation, the market is not anticipating the data to move the needle for the RBA just yet. ...

Latest CPI data provides case for rate pause

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2023
... said the result likely provides the RBA with further reasoning to keep the cash rate steady at 4.10% at its September meeting. "The Australian economy appears to be traversing the 'narrow pathway' the RBA hoped for, with inflation heading in ...

RBA anticipated to lift the cash rate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2022
... pronouncements have given the RBA little choice other than to raise rates by another 50 basis points at their September meeting to be followed by another 50 basis point hike in October." AMP chief economist Shane Oliver said: "The RBA is likely to raise ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 returns to Europe with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... Economics, "face-to-face consumer businesses in particular have been hit by intensifying virus concerns". At its September meeting, the European Central Bank (ECB) forecast Eurozone GDP contracting by 8% in 2020 - better than the 8.7% slump predicted ...

RBA observes weakness and uncertainty

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... signs of weakness in domestic economic conditions and a high level of uncertainty, when the board met for its September meeting. In considering the policy decision, the RBA said members observed that the global economy had been experiencing an uneven ...

Chief economist update: RBA increases and extends TFF

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... official cash rate at 0.25% and the yield on 3-year Australian Government bonds at 25 basis points - at its September meeting, as expected. What came as a bit of a surprise was the RBA board's decision to increase and extend its Term Funding Facility. ...

Chief economist update: It's a holiday for the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
... likelihood of no change greater than or equal to easing - the probability that the Fed will cut rates at its September meeting is at 71.5%. Looking at current US stats, there's a case for both. US GDP growth accelerated at an annualised quarterly ...

Chief economist update: RBA not risking market disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2019
... As widely expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the official cash rate unchanged at 1.0% at its September meeting. Operative phrase: "as widely expected". You, I and Irene can wax pedantic about some changes in RBA governor Philip Lowe's ...

Chief economist update: Fed cut and Trump's war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... holding businesses back..." The CME FedWatch Tool puts the probability of a Fed rate cut (to 1.75%-2.0%) at its September meeting at 98.5%.
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