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Interest rates in Australia to remain low

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept its main policy rate on hold at 2.50% today, and again signalled that it is not planning any change in monetary policy in the near-term. Although most analysts think interest rates will be hiked in 2015, we expect rates will be left at their current lows until 2016 as the economy struggles to adjust to the end of the decade-long mining boom

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