Australia to resume monetary tightening

It is a close call, but the Reserve Bank (RBA) is likely to hike rates again at its Tuesday meeting. The no change in early February was always a pause and not the end of monetary tightening. Sufficient information has probably come through since then to satisfy the RBA that households are coping reasonably well with the move up in mortgage rates.

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