The Reserve Bank will likely deliver a double dose of bad news next week with a seventh consecutive increase in its key interest rate and an elevated forecast for how high inflation will go before peaking.
Odds are firming among investors that, half an hour before Tuesday’s running of the Melbourne Cup, the RBA will hike its cash rate by 50 basis points. The surprisingly large increase in September quarter consumer prices to a 32-year high of 7.3% was one factor, economists said.
