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Newly released inflation figures higher than expected, all eyes on Reserve Bank

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Publish Date
Tue, 18 Oct 2022, 6:30pm
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Newly released inflation figures higher than expected, all eyes on Reserve Bank

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 18 Oct 2022, 6:30pm

All eyes are on the Reserve Bank - for its next moves on our high inflation.

The latest Consumers Price Index reveals inflation's at 7.2 percent - confounding economists prediction of a drop to below seven.

Some thought it'd go as low as 6.3.

Former Reserve Bank economist, Michael Reddell says that forecasting inflation can be a mug's game, because things move around so much.

Australia's inflation rate is sitting at 6.1 percent, and economists there expect a rise to 6.9 next week.

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