Nick Goodall

It's still a little bit of mixed results coming through, showing that, yeah, we've got to stay where we are for a little bit longer.

So that's kind of where I sit.

I'm keen just to do a bit more of a look at where interest rates are at and how much are they moving up or down or sideways and what are banks doing at the moment?

How are they pricing in the six or 12 months and how much is this more recent data influencing that?

So perhaps we can look at that over the next couple of weeks and time that maybe off the back of the OCR.

I'm not sure, but yeah, I think that'll be the interesting thing now just to see how they're pricing in this and what genuine chance have we got of the OCR

increasing this year um later on this year you know there's only going to be 25 basis points all those sorts of things and what does that track look like and maybe it's off the back of next wednesday when there's a bank update forecast as well which is much of it's a single to market it's a it's a pretty decent expectation so yeah i think we'll sort of wait for that one um but yeah likewise like you said wage growth not hugely there if we're not earning heaps more we're not spending heaps more that's not going to push inflation up so i think those signs for inflation to

just slow down as well are not bad.

So yeah, that's kind of my take on it.

Anything else from that sort of labour market economic perspective that you want to touch on before we take a look ahead at this week and what's going on before a quick roundup of the long weekend for ourselves?

Yeah, get her read on the global picture, of course, you know, how much does she pay attention to that, as well as everything locally.

Yeah, I think there's usually a press conference about an hour after the statement comes out.

So you actually get to genuinely hear directly from them, not just the quotes or, you know, the way that they get to write it in the statement itself.

Yeah, I think you're right.

It'll be a well-followed one.

There'll be some intrigue into her communication style.

She's talked about transparency.

So, yeah, we'll certainly wait and see how she comes across on that one.

Certainly we'll set her score for what to expect in her term, however long that's going to be.

and I think that communications file is going to be one of the key ones we'll be paying attention to.