{"id":434279,"date":"2026-01-24T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434279\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:00:10","slug":"is-another-interest-rate-hike-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434279\/","title":{"rendered":"Is another interest rate hike on the way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a January surprise for economists, with an unexpected drop in the country&#8217;s unemployment rate.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures released by the ABS this week, the unemployment rate fell from 4.3 per cent to 4.1 per cent in December.<\/p>\n<p>But with this comes some concern that the economy is running a little too hot. Could a rise in interest rates be on the cards?<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Luci Ellis, Westpac chief economist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s been a January surprise for economists, with an unexpected drop in the country&#8217;s unemployment rate. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[256,64,63,99,164,5465,5626,180,34096,179207,7054,16776,4847,8420],"class_list":["post-434279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ai","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-inflation","tag-interest-rates","tag-jobs","tag-labour-market","tag-luci-ellis","tag-rba","tag-reserve-bank","tag-unemployment","tag-westpac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}