{"id":544452,"date":"2026-03-16T17:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544452\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:25:18","slug":"economists-predict-rba-interest-rate-rise-despite-middle-east-conflict-and-looming-economic-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544452\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists predict RBA interest rate rise despite Middle East conflict and looming economic downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The risk of an economic downturn brought on by the conflict in the Middle East should not be enough to stop the Reserve Bank of Australia from raising interest rates on Tuesday as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/energy\/largest-ever-oil-market-disruption-iea-says-20260313-p5oa29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rising oil prices<\/a> threaten to send inflation to fresh highs.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the view of economists who argue the central bank\u2019s ability to follow a \u201cnarrow path\u201d that preserves the strong post-pandemic employment gains while bringing inflation back to its 2-3 per cent range is becoming more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The risk of an economic downturn brought on by the conflict in the Middle East should not be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-544452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544452","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=544452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}