RBA interest rates: Australian bonds retreat as traders pare rate cut bets

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Traders have pared bets that the RBA will raise rates this year, with some economists warning that financial markets overreacted to May’s inflation figures.

Already a subscriber?Bond traders have wound back hawkish bets that the Reserve Bank of Australia will need to raise interest rates this year, with some economists warning that financial markets overreacted to May’s hot inflation figures.

about further rate rises on Thursday night, warning that it would be a “bad mistake” to base monetary policy on one data point. “The risk of a restart in the tightening cycle in Australia has increased following May’s monthly CPI data, but we view the hawkish shift in financial markets... as an overreaction,” said Goldman’s chief economist for Australia and New Zealand, Andrew Boak.Advertisement

 

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