Reports Tagged: RBA

May 20, 2025

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced a 25 basis point cut in its key cash rate overnight in a dovish presentation of the outlook that reflected increased confidence that

May 09, 2025

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is on track to cut interest rates by another 25 basis points this month to 3.85%, providing support for the economy alongside fiscal relief

March 31, 2025

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will hold off on a March rate cut but likely tilt guidance toward a May easing using language as it starts to rebalance the

February 12, 2025

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) looks set to serve up its first rate cut in almost five years this month as the balance between considerations of keeping downward pressure

November 13, 2024

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)

October 31, 2024

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

October 07, 2024

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

September 23, 2024

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

July 15, 2024

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

June 04, 2024

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

April 24, 2024

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

March 14, 2024

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

January 04, 2024

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

December 01, 2023

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

August 31, 2023

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

July 20, 2023

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

July 06, 2023

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

May 24, 2023

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

May 01, 2023

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

March 31, 2023

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