{"id":81705,"date":"2025-10-15T07:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81705\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T07:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:41:06","slug":"rbas-hunter-inflation-is-likely-to-be-stronger-than-forecast-in-q3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81705\/","title":{"rendered":"RBA&#8217;s Hunter: Inflation is likely to be stronger than forecast in Q3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">Reserve Bank of Australia Assistant Governor (Economic) Sarah Hunter speaking at the Citi Australia &amp; New Zealand Investment Conference 2025:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"220\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Recent data has been a little stronger than expected<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"223\" data-end=\"276\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Inflation likely to be stronger than forecast in Q3<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"279\" data-end=\"348\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Labour market and economic conditions might be tighter than assumed<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"351\" data-end=\"403\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Employment growth has slowed by more than expected<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"406\" data-end=\"461\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Uncertainty about the global outlook remains elevated<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"464\" data-end=\"538\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Board will adjust policy as appropriate as new information comes to hand<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"541\" data-end=\"624\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Slower productivity lowers economy\u2019s speed limit and pace at which wages can grow<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"627\" data-end=\"720\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Slower productivity linked to lack of competition, business dynamism, and capital deepening<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">RBA Assistant Governor Sarah Hunter said stronger-than-expected data and a likely hotter Q3 inflation print point to a still-tight economy, though job growth has cooled. Speaking at a Citi event, she highlighted slowing productivity as a structural drag that lowers Australia\u2019s growth and wage \u201cspeed limits,\u201d while reaffirming that policy will adjust as data evolve.<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">Hunter\u2019s comments dampen expectations of near-term rate cuts, reinforcing the RBA\u2019s cautious stance as inflation risks remain sticky. The focus on weak productivity signals limited policy room for aggressive easing even as growth moderates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reserve Bank of Australia Assistant Governor (Economic) Sarah Hunter speaking at the Citi Australia &amp; New Zealand Investment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,23260],"class_list":["post-81705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-reserve-bank-of-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81705","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=81705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}