Central Banks

Australia’s Central Bank Raises Key Rate to Seven-Year High, Signals More to Come

  • Lowe highlights uncertainty over household spending behavior
  • To closely monitor how wages and firms’ price settings evolve

Outside the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) building in Sydney.

Photographer: David Gray/Bloomberg
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Australia’s central bank raised interest rates by a half-percentage point for a fourth consecutive meeting and signaled further hikes ahead in its drive to rein in inflation.