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Australia’s leading forecasters expect the Reserve Bank to resist pressure to lift interest rates all year, despite rising interest rates overseas, much higher inflation, plunging unemployment, and financial market traders pricing in two hikes in the next six months.
The 24-person forecasting panel assembled by The Conversation also predicts:
- weaker economic growth
- much lower housing price growth
- next to no growth in the Australian share market
- little or no further inroads into unemployment
- and wage growth so weak that real wages go backwards.
Two-thirds of the forecasting panel expect the Reserve Bank to leave rates ultra low until at least the first quarter of 2023, when it will have a better read on price pressure, wages and the jobs market.

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