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Matthew Elmas

Mortgage reprieve: Reserve Bank hits pause on interest rates as economy slows

Interest rates have been put on pause amid signs the economy is slowing. Photo: AAP

Interest rates have been paused for the first time in almost a year as the Reserve Bank ends its record breaking streak of hikes amid signs the economy has started slowing.

At a meeting on Tuesday afternoon the RBA board held its cash rate target at a decade high 3.6 per cent for April, forgoing another 0.25 percentage point rise that many economists had expected.

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