{"id":330858,"date":"2025-12-07T19:06:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330858\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:06:05","slug":"rba-set-to-hold-rates-again-as-markets-watch-for-hawkish-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330858\/","title":{"rendered":"RBA Set to Hold Rates Again as Markets Watch for Hawkish Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Australia\u2019s central bank is poised to keep interest rates unchanged for a third straight meeting, with traders and economists on alert for any shift toward a more hawkish tone that might signal the possibility of hikes next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Economists anticipate the Reserve Bank will keep the cash rate at 3.6% at its Dec. 8-9 meeting, and overnight-indexed swaps reinforce that view. But the swaps are pricing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-04\/australian-yields-climb-to-highest-this-year-on-rate-hike-bets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">pivot<\/a> back to tightening in mid-2026 due to renewed inflation pressures, resilient domestic demand and a still-tight labor market. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s central bank is poised to keep interest rates unchanged for a third straight meeting, with traders and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2840,3244,45,49,48,548,133,135,9316,1571,40749,131,132,2100,39434,2442],"class_list":["post-330858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-australia","tag-bonds","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economics","tag-finance","tag-inflation","tag-interest-rates","tag-labor","tag-michele-bullock","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-policy","tag-rba","tag-unemployment-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}