Tag: rate

  • Job figures ‘good shock’ regardless of rate of interest fears

    Dwell Treasurer Jim Chalmers has described the newest jobs figures as a “good shock” regardless of fears low unemployment might gasoline additional rate of interest hikes. The unemployment price held regular at 3.5 per cent in June after the Might end result was revised down. Incoming Reserve Financial institution governor Michele Bullock has indicated unemployment…

  • Aussie unemployment fee hangs on at 3.5 per cent

    Stay Australia’s jobless fee got here in at 3.5 per cent in June, with 33,000 jobs added to the financial system. The official labour power information confirmed the unemployment fee hanging on at 3.5 per cent for a second month, after the Could outcome was revised down. “With employment growing by round 33,000 folks and…

  • Extra fee rises ‘doable’ however RBA’s course unsure

    Dwell Reserve Financial institution governor Philip Lowe says it’s “doable” there shall be additional will increase to rates of interest, regardless of maintaining them on maintain on the final assembly. The governor says it’s unclear if financial coverage has extra work to do, and was “very aware” the total pressure of the tightening so far…

  • The pondering behind the RBA’s ‘hawkish pause’ in not inflicting one other fee hike

    Commentators will run a fine-tooth comb by way of what Philip Lowe has to say subsequent following the Reserve Financial institution’s resolution to maintain rates of interest on maintain this month. The central financial institution has been climbing charges to rein in inflation, however in July stored them regular at 4.1 per cent at its…

  • Specialists cut up as rate of interest verdict hangs in stability

    Reside Debtors can be hoping for rate of interest reduction earlier than a neck-and-neck name between one other money price increase or staying on maintain. The Reserve Financial institution board, as a consequence of meet on Tuesday afternoon for the July determination, is nearing the top of its mountaineering cycle after lifting rates of interest…

  • RBA mulls one other rate of interest hike at July assembly

    The Reserve Financial institution is poised for one more knife’s edge rates of interest resolution on Tuesday, with key forecasters predicting a hike amid fears the battle in opposition to inflation is proving too gradual. Relying on which manner central bankers swing, the money fee goal will both keep at 4.1 per cent or rise…

  • Price hikes, tumbling inflation, excessive probability of recession: How our forecasting panel sees 2023-24

    Of the 27 main economists assembled by The Dialog to forecast the monetary yr that has simply begun, each one expects inflation to proceed to fall. The official quarterly measure of inflation peaked at 7.8 per cent within the yr to December and is now 7 per cent, and the newer month-to-month measure peaked at…

  • Inflation shock as fee of progress slows for Might

    Reside Inflation has are available in softer than anticipated and sunk again to five.6 per cent in Might from 6.8 per cent in April. Markets had been anticipating the month-to-month client value index to reasonable to six.1 per cent over the month after a larger-than-anticipated uptick in April. “This month’s annual enhance of 5.6 per…

  • ‘Per capita recession’: Banks forecast longer downturn as extra rate of interest rises loom

    Australians face a per capita recession for years, and even a quick contraction in early 2024, as RBA minutes reveal central bankers are nonetheless fearful inflation will stay stubbornly excessive. Westpac chief economist Invoice Evans stated on Tuesday {that a} population-adjusted downturn is slated for 2023 and 2024, as greater rates of interest slam the…

  • Extra charge ache forward? This week will present some clues

    The Reserve Financial institution’s subsequent transfer on rates of interest stays shrouded in uncertainty and public appearances from two senior officers might present clues. The central financial institution has jacked up the official money charge 12 instances since Might final yr, selecting to push the hike button at each assembly besides April’s. The return to…