This comes as the country sees its highest level of inflation in six quarters.

By Stella Qiu SYDNEY, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Australian consumer prices rose by more than expected in January, while core ...

RBA lifts interest rates by 0.25 per cent, to 3.85 per cent, after inflation rose "materially" in the second half of 2025.

SYDNEY, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Australia's central bank concluded inflation would stay stubbornly high if it had not hiked ...

Just when we thought it was safe to return to the supermarket aisle, it seems inflation has come back to bite us again. Worse, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) predicts it will linger for longer ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s central bank lifted its benchmark interest rate Tuesday by a quarter percentage point to 3.85%, after three rate cuts last year and as inflation surges. The ...

Bond yields have climbed and the Aussie dollar is up as traders ramp up bets that the Reserve Bank will be forced to act sooner than many economists expected.

The RBA became the first major monetary authority in the developed world to raise rates this year and faces the prospect of further hikes ahead.

Westpac also announced it would increase its home loan variable interest rates by 0.25 per cent per annum, with the change to ...

FILE - Workers in high visibility clothing walk past the Reserve Bank of Australia in Sydney, Nov. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File) FILE - Workers in high visibility clothing walk past the ...