Juliette Sali

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FEAR & GREED | Business News · RBA hikes rates; Westpac sold-off; EV sales surge · 5 May 2026 podcast

It's Wednesday, the 6th of May, 2026.

I'm Juliette Sali, and good morning, Sean Alma.

Well, of course, the main story this morning, Sean, the Reserve Bank of Australia lifting the official cash rate yesterday afternoon in a bid to rein in inflation and also making it clear that it isn't just the Middle East conflict pushing up prices, but also capacity pressures in the domestic economy.

Now, on what was supposed to be a tight run call, eight of the nine members of the RBA Monetary Policy Board actually voted for a rate hike, which was the third this year.

It takes the official cash rate back to where it was in late 2024 and it's almost 15 years since the official cash rate has actually been any higher than where it is now.

Yeah, I was actually at the press conference yesterday and you're right, there wasn't much good news.

You can tell that she is worried about the effects of these higher rates on Aussies who are struggling, but she continued to say, look, this is the only tool they have, whether or not it's a blunt instrument or not.

And the RBA noting that there are some early signs that businesses are experiencing cost pressures and

They're looking to increase prices, which we've touched on already this week.

And short-term measures of inflation expectations have also risen.

So kind of setting the stage up, I guess, for the fact that rates could be hiked again.

And that's what we're sort of seeing with a lot of these forecasts coming through from economists in the wake of this decision too.

It's really fun, actually.

It's sort of, I guess, a, you know,

group of gathering of all the financial journalists.

We don't see each other very often.

And I think I mentioned to you the other day, we have absolutely no idea how they decide who sits where.

I used to think it was about who registered first.

Now I have no idea.

But basically you enter the room and there's normally, I think about 16 to 20

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