Modest growth in consumption expected in 2024
26 May 2024 - 00:00
The focus in the week ahead is naturally on the critical election, which aptly overshadows the Reserve Bank’s interest rate meeting on the following day. At that meeting, we expect the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee to keep the policy interest rate unchanged (premised on our assumption that the election will not trigger any material currency weakness that could ultimately be inflationary)...
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