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Hawkish RBA will hike rates to 2% by year-end

The RBA started hiking the cash rate today and sounded hawkish for the first since the start of the pandemic. Our forecast that interest rates will reach 2% by year-end is far above the analyst consensus of 1%, but the risks are tilted to the upside.

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