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Global events may keep the RBA on hold for longer

The Reserve Bank of Australia has become more worried about trade tariffs and rising global bank funding costs. Coming on top of the weakness of the housing market and wage growth, it is becoming even more likely that the RBA will keep interest rates at 1.5%, as it did today, until late in 2019.

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