Black Friday sales before Christmas contributed to price falls in furniture, footwear and clothing, suggesting some of the ...

Beneath the surface, household demand appears far more resilient than the RBA had anticipated. Consumer spending has surged ...

The Reserve Bank says inflation is "too high", but that doesn't mean it will necessarily rush to raise interest rates next ...

Cash-strapped mortgage holders won’t get any rate relief in 2026, even as Australia’s unemployment rate is predicted to spike ...

Headline inflation has come in lower than expected. But will that mean an interest rate reprieve? Not necessarily, economists say.

Inflation cooled in November, with the consumer price index rising 3.4 per cent over the year, down from 3.8 per cent a month earlier. Some economists continue to forecast a February rate hike, ...

A senior official at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has said the recent slowdown in consumer price inflation is a ...

BENGALURU (Reuters) -The Reserve Bank of Australia will keep its key interest rate unchanged at 3.60% on Tuesday as an inflation spike delays policy easing, according to economists in a Reuters poll ...

Australia’s core inflation slowed in November, supporting the case for the Reserve Bank to keep interest rates unchanged for now as it assesses the impact of earlier policy easing.