{"id":348924,"date":"2026-03-16T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348924\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:26:09","slug":"rba-hike-expectations-offer-support-bbh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348924\/","title":{"rendered":"RBA hike expectations offer support \u2013 BBH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brown Brothers Harriman\u2019s (BBH) Elias Haddad expects the Reserve Bank of Australia to deliver a second consecutive 25 bps hike to 4.10%, though it is described as a close call. Futures imply slightly better than even odds of a move. Haddad\u2019s base case is that a hike would provide some support to the Australian Dollar against a backdrop of elevated domestic inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back RBA hike seen likely<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is expected to deliver a back-to-back 25bps cash rate target hike to 4.10%, but it\u2019s a close call. Cash rate futures imply 53% odds of a hike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our base case is for the RBA to raise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/rates-charts\/rates\" data-fxs-autoanchor=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rates<\/a>, which will offer AUD some support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Australia headline inflation is running high at 3.8% y\/y even before the energy shock hits, and all the RBA\u2019s internal models show a positive output gap consistent with tighter capacity constraints.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brown Brothers Harriman\u2019s (BBH) Elias Haddad expects the Reserve Bank of Australia to deliver a second consecutive 25&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-348924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}