Employment growth has picked up over the last couple of months, but with the labour force expanding even faster the unemployment rate has started to rise. With GDP growth below potential and underlying inflation well below target, we suspect that will be enough for the Reserve Bank of Australia to cut interest rates to 1.25% at its June meeting and follow up with another 25bp cut in August.
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