RBA will hike rates to 3.85% by April

While the strength in Q3 inflation would favour another 50bp rate hike next week, we suspect the Reserve Bank of Australia will stick to a smaller 25bp increase. However, we are pencilling in one more 25bp rate hike into our forecasts, with the cash rate peaking at 3.85% by April.

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