The Reserve Bank of Australia maintained its key interest rate for the third straight month at its final meeting of 2025, and the policy board observed that there are some signals of a more broadly based inflation uptick, some of which may be long-term and will need to be closely monitored.
The policy board governed by Michele Bullock decided to hold the cash rate at 3.60 percent, as widely expected, on Tuesday.
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May 22, 2026 14:46 ET Minutes of the latest Fed policy session was the highlight of the week along with survey data on the U.S. housing market. In Europe, survey data signaled the trends in the euro area private sector. Further, consumer price inflation data from the U.K. was in focus. In Asia, various economic indicators from China drew attention to the health of the economy.