Stephen Koukoulas
speaker
2,355 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Stephen Koukoulas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh look, the economy's already slowing, we don't need to do any more.
And that's why the debate on monetary policy for the September
Meeting of the Monetary Policy Board will be such a hotly contested one.
What's your gut telling you?
Okay, it's d
The data la last week said yes.
And that's why, as you alluded to, I think there are now oh a dozen.
Big banks, little banks in between banks calling for the they're economists anyway, calling for rate hikes by the end of the year, if not in September, then probably November or December.
There's th there's three more meetings of the RBA between now and year end.
So I think that the data last week was one of those ones that the RBA
Who of course react to the numbers like us me and Mortals, they would have said, Oh my goodness, isn't the economy resilient?
Gosh, isn't that inflation number slightly disappointing that it hasn't?
Even one tenth lower would have been nicer.
It's w that's how fine these margins are on these sort of things.
And if they see this
Oh, the there's just momentum that economic activity is being sustained for a little bit longer.
And even the inflation outlook, you know, we're looking at the commodity price measures from around the world.
And I won't focus just on oil, but things like copper prices.
You know, we've seen that in some of the mining companies reporting that wow, copper's making us a fortune now, and the iron ore price is still resilience.
These are the sort of things that sort of feed into the system.
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