{"id":424077,"date":"2026-05-04T01:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/424077\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:55:08","slug":"interest-rates-are-set-to-rise-use-our-loan-calculator-to-check-how-a-rate-hike-could-affect-you-reserve-bank-of-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/424077\/","title":{"rendered":"Interest rates are set to rise. Use our loan calculator to check how a rate hike could affect you | Reserve Bank of Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Reserve Bank could raise interest rates again on Tuesday, after lifting rates in February and March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Financial markets imply there is about a two-thirds chance of a third hike, after soaring fuel prices pushed inflation to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/29\/inflation-increase-australia-rba-reserve-bank-interest-rates-fuel-iran\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highest rate since 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">For someone with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abs.gov.au\/statistics\/economy\/finance\/lending-indicators\/latest-release\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">average-sized new mortgage<\/a> of $736,000, paying a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rba.gov.au\/statistics\/interest-rates\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">typical rate<\/a> of 5.7%, a rate increase would add about $117 to their $4,272 monthly repayments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Use this interest rate calculator to see what you might have to pay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Whether or not the RBA raises rates on Tuesday, two hikes are expected by December, leaving 2026 with a total of four interest rate increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reserve Bank could raise interest rates again on Tuesday, after lifting rates in February and March. Financial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-424077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}