The Reserve Bank of Australia today once again decided to leave interest rates at 2.0%, but we don’t think it will be long before a weakening in the economic outlook and a further fall in underlying inflation forces it to cut rates to 1.5%. When other central banks are either loosening policy or delaying tightening, that would be the best way to weaken the dollar from US$0.71 now to US$0.65.
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