Whereas the Reserve Bank of Australia expects the household savings rate to rise over the course of this year, we think that households will lift real consumption alongside a likely rebound in real incomes. Even so, our GDP growth forecasts are already more pessimistic than the RBA’s and further belt-tightening by households may well prompt the Bank to start lowering rates this year instead of our forecast of Q1 2025.
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