{"id":67426,"date":"2025-10-09T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67426\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:56:09","slug":"australia-consumer-inflation-expectations-are-rising-october-4-8-prior-4-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67426\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Consumer Inflation Expectations are rising: October 4.8% (prior 4.7%)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">Australian Melbourne Institute survey of consumer inflation expectations for October 2025 4.8%<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">The latest figure of 4.8 % is up slightly from 4.7 % in September. <\/p>\n<p>September itself represented a rebound from August\u2019s lower level (3.9%) prior to that. <\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">Historically, inflation expectations in recent years generally fluctuated in the 3\u20135 % range, so 4.8 % is toward the upper end of recent norms, though not unprecedented. <\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">The fact that expectations are rising \u2014 rather than continuing a downward descent \u2014 suggests households may be becoming more alert to persistent inflation pressures.<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">Higher expectations make it harder for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to anchor inflation expectations, potentially reducing its flexibility to ease rates.<br \/>\n If consumers expect inflation near 5%, that may influence wage demands, pricing behavior, and cost-of-living adjustments.<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">This is a monthly survey run by the Melbourne Institute (University of Melbourne)<\/p>\n<p>asks households about how much they expect consumer prices (inflation) to change over the coming 12 months<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">It is part of a broader Macroeconomic Reports series that also covers wage expectations, consumer sentiment, and other indicators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Melbourne Institute survey of consumer inflation expectations for October 2025 4.8% The latest figure of 4.8 %&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[54233,138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-67426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-australian-consumer-inflation-expectations","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}