Australians are feeling better about the economic outlook including the prospects for lower rates, and while we are ruling out a pre-Christmas rate reduction, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)

Australia’s “Goldilocks” third quarter inflation report all but locks in an unchanged 4.35% policy rate at the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) early November meeting, and vindicates the central bank’s

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is poised to deploy a communications offensive this month to emphasize its hawkish posture relative to its rate-cutting peers in other countries, as it

With the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) all but certain to stand pat at this week’s policy meeting following last week’s news of sharply stronger-than-expected jobs growth, we guide clients

Australia’s sticky inflation readings will revive the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) debate over whether to hike rates when it meets early next month though we project the Bank will

Though the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) patience may be starting to wear thin on inflation following another round of higher-than-expected readings, we expect that slower growth and the Bank’s

Even prior to the latest stronger-than-expected Australian inflation data, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was not convinced its 4.35% cash rate was sufficiently restraining prices enough to chart a

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Michele Bullock is set to reprise her mantra that the central is not ruling out either direction for the next move in monetary policy

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will likely hold rates steady at its first meeting of the year when it meets next month, with prospective easing likely to lag other

Slower-than-expected inflation in October reinforces the likelihood that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will not only stand pat when it meets on December 5, but is probably done hiking

The Canadian and Australian central banks, either finishing out or done with tightening, are turning their attention to how to fend off growing speculation that rate cuts will be brought

It was telling that for all the Australian media accounts torturing differences in the policy approaches of Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe and his newly anointed successor

Forced to resume rate hikes after stopping too soon, two central banks are once again trying to slow the pace of their final moves but they’re not done yet. After

When the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) unexpectedly raised rates earlier this month following a debate whether to hold the cash rate at 3.6% officials, concerned about the risk of

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will likely stand pat again as it opens this week’s round of major central bank policy meetings. That’s not to say that the RBA

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), consoled in part by recent softer inflation data, will likely step to the sidelines at its upcoming policy meeting to assess whether the transmission

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), still uncomfortable with the level of underlying inflation, will likely raise rates again by 25 basis points in early March even as news of

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will hike another 25 basis points to 3.35% on Tuesday and resume tough talk on inflation after data in the final months of last

A surprising dip in a new monthly measure of Australia’s consumer inflation will not knock the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) off its path to nudge rates another 25 basis

A resurgence in Australia’s inflation rate rate to a 32-year high will challenge the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to weigh another large rate hike when it meets next week