Australia's central bank leaves rates unchanged at 4.1%

The Reserve Bank of Australia held involvement rates astatine 4.1% for a 2nd period connected Tuesday, successful different reprieve for owe holders aft ostentation precocious slowed much than expected.

Even though Australian ostentation slowed much than expected successful the 2nd quarter, its user terms scale inactive roseate 6% successful the 2nd 4th from a twelvemonth ago. That's inactive good supra the RBA's 2% target, but slower than the 7% summation recorded successful the archetypal quarter.

The Australian cardinal slope has hiked involvement rates by a cumulative 400 ground points since May past twelvemonth to its highest successful 11 years. The state has been grappling with surging ostentation arsenic economical enactment picked up aft the tallness of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tuesday's RBA argumentation gathering is Philip Lowe's penultimate gathering arsenic governor.

Michele Bullock volition succeed Lowe arsenic RBA politician erstwhile helium finishes a seven-year word successful bureau connected Sept. 17.

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