What's Next for Interest Rates as RBA Meets?

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Where to from here for interest rates in Australia?

Ross Stitt unpicks the mix of data, risks, politics, and overseas influences on the RBA's cash rate target decision making to glean an insight into where Australian rates are headed

Today’s highlights are the monetary policy meetings of the Central Bank of Australia (RBA) with a projected drop in rates, the consumer confidence data in EMU and Spain and the results of Palo Alto and Home Depot. On the other hand, the market had to assess yesterday Monday the impact of the US rating drop on Friday at the close of Wall Street and today it will have to evaluate what Wall Street did yesterday with this information. In Norbolsa re…

What's next for interest rates as RBA meets?

All the latest on today's interest rates announcment.