The surge in electricity and gas prices in the third quarter will garner a lot of attention, but the drop back in the headline inflation rate from 1.9% to 1.8% underlines that price pressures remain remarkably subdued across large parts of the economy. That’s not going to change soon, which is why we believe the RBA won’t raise interest rates from their current record low of 1.5% at all next year.
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