Even though the Reserve Bank of Australia today decided not to try and talk the dollar down after it left interest rates at 1.5%, we still think the dollar will eventually weaken from US$0.80 now to around US$0.70. We believe that subdued GDP growth will prevent the RBA from raising interest rates until late in 2019. That would be roughly a year later than the financial markets currently expect.
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