Archive for month: April, 2018

Cash Rate – No change

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has just announced it will maintain the official cash rate at 1.50%.

The RBA is confident Australia’s economy will be boosted this year by stronger LNG exports as new projects come onstream. In addition, non-mining investment will likely rise solidly, buoyed by population growth, low interest rates and dynamic global economic activity. However, sluggish wage growth, declining productivity and high levels of household debt will continue to weigh on the economy. GDP growth of 2.3 percent for 2017 is further evidence the RBA’s expectations for a pick up to 3.25% this year will be challenging.

We continue to believe that the RBA will maintain the current cash rate until wages growth and core inflation are on a sustained upward trend.  This is not expected until later this year or early 2019.

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