{"id":571517,"date":"2026-03-29T06:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571517\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T06:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:28:11","slug":"australian-dollar-expected-to-strengthen-despite-recent-drop-amid-high-interest-rates-and-commodity-demand-and-hedge-funds-are-loving-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571517\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian dollar expected to strengthen despite recent drop amid high interest rates and commodity demand, and hedge funds are loving it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is on top of the interest rates world, and the Iran war has only boosted the odds that we\u2019ll stay there. Rates are now tipped to be higher for longer in most developed markets, just not as high as here. Hedge funds are loving it, households less so.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re being knocked over by economists\u2019 predictions of more rate hikes. UBS\u2019 George Tharenou now says the Reserve Bank of Australia will hike twice more by August (or perhaps even June), to take the year\u2019s tally to four rises worth 100 basis points, for example. He became more hawkish on Friday, following remarks from RBA assistant governor Chris Kent that the cash rate needed to be above neutral.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia is on top of the interest rates world, and the Iran war has only boosted the odds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-571517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571517","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=571517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}