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Why interest rates may have to fall to 1%

The Reserve Bank of Australia is unlikely to follow May’s 0.25% interest rate cut to 1.75% with another reduction at the meeting on Tuesday 7th June. But we still believe that rates will be reduced to 1.5% at the August meeting and, in a change to our previous forecast, we now expect that interest rates will eventually fall to 1.0%.

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