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The strong labour market and the cautious RBA

The financial markets are probably right to assume that the release of June’s bumper labour market figures has increased the chances that the Reserve Bank of Australia will raise interest rates a bit earlier than otherwise. But there’s unlikely to be enough progress on unemployment, wage growth and inflation to prompt the RBA into action before the back-end of next year.

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