{"id":761007,"date":"2026-06-26T06:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761007\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:47:33","slug":"westpac-economy-growing-slower-than-rba-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761007\/","title":{"rendered":"Westpac: Economy growing slower than RBA forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s all from The Australian\u2019s rolling coverage of business and markets news for Friday, June 26.<\/p>\n<p>The ASX 200 index closed up 0.2 per cent at 8764.2 points after hitting a two-week low of 8708.1 as tech-heavy Asian sharemarkets dived on a report OpenAI could delay its IPO.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian dollar was down near US68.96c.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/markets\/asx-200-braces-for-volatility-apple-sinks-oil-prices-spike\/live-coverage\/2e4b32626debf200fc72eeffe79549a7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Westpac analysis puts Reserve Bank in a bind over slow economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That\u2019s all from The Australian\u2019s rolling coverage of business and markets news for Friday, June 26. The ASX&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-761007","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\/761007","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=761007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}