With inflation weakening faster than the Reserve Bank of Australia has anticipated, the Bank may well conclude that it has tightened policy enough to return inflation to target. However, with the labour market still very tight and services inflation still accelerating, we think it has more work to do. We’re sticking to our forecast that the Bank will hike rates by 25bp next week.
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