The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) held its cash rate at 4.5% today, as was universally anticipated. We expect the mining boom to bring above-trend GDP growth over the next few years and there is already little spare capacity in the economy. The upshot is that inflation is likely to trend higher later this year and in 2011. We still expect the RBA to resume its tightening cycle in Q4.
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