RBA Kent: Need Cash Rate To Stay Above Short-Term Neutral To Meet...

By Sophia Rodrigues

--Restrictive Monetary Policy Needed For A Time To Ease Inflationary Pressures
--Cash Rate Needs To Spend Time Above Short-Run Neutral Rate
--Short-run Neutral Up 20-30bps Over Recent Qtrs; Upside Pressu...

RBA Increases Cash Rate By 25bps To 4.10%

By Sophia Rodrigues

(Sydney, March 17, 2026) -- The Reserve Bank of Australia raised the cash rate by 25bps to 4.10%.

Here are key headlines:

--RBA Hikes Cash Rate 25bps to 4.10%
--Vote 5 to 4
--labour m...

RBA Hauser: Inflation Too High; Clear Upside Risk To Feb Forecast...

By Sophia Rodrigues

--We have problem with inflation; it’s too high
--Inflation is well above our target range
--Oil price clearly an upside risk to RBA’s inflation projection in February
--Had data that...

RBA Bullock: Will Take Some Time To Assess Impact of Middle East...

--Take some time to make sense of inflation impact from Middle East events
--Supply shock could add to inflation pressures plus alert to inflation expectations risk
--But adverse impact on global econ activity/downward inflation pres...

RBA Hunter: Alternative MonPol Strategy Would Have Pushed Unemplo...

--Dual mandate doesn’t mean equal importance to both at all times
--There will be times more weight will be placed on one side of mandate vs other
--Still pursuing strategy of gradual inflation return to target and gradual labo...

RBA Plumb: Focus Remains On Quarterly Inflation Outcomes

--Reminds forecasts assume higher cash rate and higher exchange rate
--Share of items with CPI over 2.5% increased noticeably in 2025
--Removed modest downward judgement to inflation forecast put in Aug 2025 forecasts
--Also r...