{"id":787157,"date":"2026-07-08T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/787157\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:52:09","slug":"imf-economic-forecast-downgrades-australias-growth-as-rba-warns-of-potential-interest-rate-rises-and-higher-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/787157\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF economic forecast downgrades Australia\u2019s growth as RBA warns of potential interest rate rises and higher unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund has downgraded its forecast growth for Australia, and the Reserve Bank\u2019s chief economist says a period of higher unemployment may be needed to tame inflation, in the latest warnings households and businesses should brace for an economic slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>RBA chief economist Sarah Hunter\u2019s comments on Wednesday about a higher jobless rate again signalled the central bank\u2019s openness to lifting interest rates for a fourth time this year should persistent inflation not ease.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The International Monetary Fund has downgraded its forecast growth for Australia, and the Reserve Bank\u2019s chief economist says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-787157","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\/787157","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=787157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}