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RBA won’t launch QE anytime soon

The RBA has made it clear that quantitative easing is its preferred tool once interest rates reach the effective lower bound. But we suspect that the Bank would first cut interest rates from their current level of 1.5% to 0.5% or lower before QE is launched.

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