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Central banks getting more confident

Both the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand displayed a little more confidence in their optimistic forecasts when they left interest rates unchanged this week. We think that in both economies, GDP growth will fall well short of what central banks are anticipating. The upshot is that we still think that policy will be tightened later than most analysts anticipate.

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