{"id":121630,"date":"2025-12-11T12:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=121630"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:13:23","slug":"rba-holds-rates-at-3-60-warns-inflation-risks-are-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/rba-holds-rates-at-3-60-warns-inflation-risks-are-rising\/12\/11\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"RBA Holds Rates at 3.60%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia\u2019s central bank kept its benchmark cash rate unchanged at <strong>3.60%<\/strong> on Tuesday, in line with market expectations, while cautioning that inflation risks have shifted <strong>to the upside<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concluding its two-day policy meeting, the <strong>Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)<\/strong> said it needed more time to assess the persistence of price pressures. It also noted that <strong>domestic demand has been stronger than anticipated<\/strong>, increasing the possibility of renewed inflationary momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Markets had fully priced in a hold this week following firm data on both <strong>inflation<\/strong> and <strong>consumer spending<\/strong>, and are now assigning a rising probability of a <strong>rate hike sometime next year<\/strong> if price pressures do not ease as expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s central bank kept its benchmark cash rate unchanged at 3.60% on Tuesday, in line with market expectations, while cautioning that inflation risks have shifted to the upside. Concluding its two-day policy meeting, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said it needed more time to assess the persistence of price pressures. It also noted that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":52068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,36],"tags":[7063,10999,6987,7580,7035],"class_list":["post-121630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-forex-markets","category-market-updates","tag-aud-usd","tag-christopher-kent","tag-inflation","tag-monetary-policy","tag-rba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121632,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121630\/revisions\/121632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}