As is well known, the RBA has a dual mandate covering both inflation and employment objectives.
That means that despite increasing the policy rate when it last met, the Reserve Bank of Australia Monetary Policy Board will find itself in a difficult position when it meets in early November. The September consumer price index report again affirmed that trimmed-mean inflation is indubitably “sticky”. And the labour market is unquestionably cooling.
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