‘Cautious’ RBA holds rates steady ahead of election
The Reserve Bank of Australia has kept the cash rate unchanged at 4.1 per cent, but more mortgage relief could soon be on the way.
The economy
Inflation continues to ease, with the headline figure falling 0.1 per cent in February, but it likely won't be enough to prompt an interest rate cut until May.
Fewer older Australians returned to work in February, driving a surprise fall in jobs and workforce participation but the labour market remains tight overall.
Australia's economic growth forecasts have been downgraded due to Donald Trump's trade war, keeping its most important financial leaders on their toes.
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The economy
Consumer confidence surges on back of interest rate cut but…
Australia's economic outlook is looking rosier as inflation continues to fall and following the first decline in interest rates in more than four years.
Australia's bottom line will be $11 billion better off, if the government releases a budget before the election, a leading economist predicts.
Australia's wealth divide reached its worst level in more than two decades, after excluding a temporary narrowing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stronger goods and services exports have pushed the Australian economy out of a hole, with GDP rising 0.6 per cent in the December quarter, above RBA forecasts.
Fresh inflation figures should help convince the Reserve Bank to cut rates again in May, despite a slight uptick in underlying price growth, economists say.
The Trump administration's tariffs will inflict less damage on Australia's economy than others but their impact on inflation is less clear, central bankers say.
Ongoing tightness in the labour market won't overly concern the Reserve Bank in its fight against inflation, says one economist after surprising jobs figures.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says ongoing growth in real wages is a good thing, but the RBA will be more encouraged that wage rises are showing signs of slowing.
An AAP survey of 32 leading Australian economists has tipped the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates this week, but more than one in five remain unconvinced.
Floods in Australia's north are expected to cut economic output and nudge up banana and sugar prices, as the opposition weighs in on a forecast rate cut.
States' "lax financial discipline" has earned a rebuke from a credit ratings giant, which says they are at risk of paying higher interest bills to service debt.
Strong retail spending figures are not expected to deter the Reserve Bank from cutting rates at its next meeting as one big bank lowers fixed-rate loans.
Home values held firm in January as a shallow and short-lived housing downturn nears its end, with new supply coming too slowly to solve unaffordability.
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