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Is the Governor warming to the idea of raising rates?

Although the Reserve Bank of Australia will once again leave interest rates at 1.5% at the policy meeting on Tuesday 4th September, we sense that Governor Lowe has started to send some subtle signals that the Bank is warming to the idea of raising rates. That said, we doubt the trigger will be pulled until late in 2019, if not sometime in 2020.

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