All of the data releases listed in our calendar, below, are for New Zealand. The RBA minutes are, of course, from Australia.
The minutes are from the March 7 meeting, when the Bank delivered what was characterised as a ‘dovish hike’ of 25bp/ Dovish because Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Lowe’s statement accompanying the decision diluted guidance on future hikes. While the February and March hikes from the RBA were no brainers the next meeting, April 4, is very much ‘live, with divergent previews already:
Since the March meeting we’ve had global banking system turmoil. Six major DM central banks have stepped in to try to soothe sentiment:
This is another factor the Reserve Bank of Australia will be pondering at the April meeting. Yesterday we heard from Christopher Kent, Reserve Bank of Australia Assistant Governor (Financial Markets) on this, and more:
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numbers in the right-most column are the ‘prior’ (previous
month/quarter as the case may be) result. The number in the column
next to that, where there is a number, is the consensus median
expected.
