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Gambling on growth

We believe that the Reserve Bank of Australia is being too complacent in expecting GDP growth to be close to 3% over the next couple of years and underlying inflation to rise to 2.0%. So while the RBA today left interest rates at 1.5%, we suspect it may be forced to reduce them to 1.0% later this year.

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