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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Peter Hannam

Does Australia’s higher-than-forecast 3.6% inflation dash hopes for an interest rate cut?

Reserve Bank Australia
The Reserve Bank board, which meets on 6-7 May, will carefully assess the March inflation numbers but it’s hard to imagine a major change of tack on interest rates. Photograph: Mark Baker/AP

A higher-than-forecast inflation result for the March quarter (and March itself) wasn’t the news Australian borrowers or the Albanese government had been wishing for.

Disappointment, however, needn’t usher in panic spasms either.

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