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Our new interest rate & Australian dollar forecasts

Our new forecast that the Reserve Bank of Australia won’t raise interest rates from the record low of 1.5% until late in 2020 compares to the consensus view that lift-off will take place late next year. That partly explains why we now expect the Australian dollar to fall from US$0.72 now to US$0.65 next year.

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