Sally Auld
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5,823 appearances
57 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 17 Aug
Sally Auld’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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expected to leave rates on hold.
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And I think the statement will be interesting.
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It will acknowledge, I think, some softer outcomes in activity data.
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So, you know, for example, the NAB Business Survey, the measure of capacity utilization has come off quite a bit in the last couple of months.
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And I think it'll probably also acknowledge some of the weaker outcomes we've seen in the housing market.
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So housing was starting to soften even before the federal budget, but that does seem to have accelerated somewhat
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In the past month or so.
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So, you know, a few things have shifted on the activity front, but, and it's a pretty big but, you know, I think the statement's going to also reflect some ongoing anxiety around the inflation outlook, because we're sort of still sitting here under a pretty big cloud of uncertainty around inflation.
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I guess, the breadth and the speed at which some of the cost increases that we know businesses have faced into in the last couple of months and the extent to which they get passed into final prices.
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So it could be a reasonably balanced statement.
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And I don't think markets will react too strongly to that.
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Then, of course, we've got the press conference.
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But in their next meeting in August, that will be when they sit down to rethink
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you know, the forecasts.
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And I suspect that might be a more consequential meeting in terms of market expectations than the one we'll see tomorrow.
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so you know maybe some evidence of the middle east conflict um on on consumption but generally speaking you know the market oh you know the consensus of expectations tends to look
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He's looking for around growth of about 1% annualised for the quarter, which is a little bit stronger than what the Bank of England had assumed in most of its scenarios, I think, in April.
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So the actual number for May wasn't great, but it was in line with expectations, so no real surprises there.
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But like you said, you know, maybe growth is looking a touch stronger than the Bank of England expected.
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So it's quite a tricky one for them in the sense that they've got, you know, clear evidence of forward looking inflation pressures.
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