{"id":435965,"date":"2026-08-11T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/rba-leaves-cash-rate-unchanged-at-4-35-in-august-monetary-policy-meeting-as-expected-435965\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:00:20","slug":"rba-leaves-cash-rate-unchanged-at-4-35-in-august-monetary-policy-meeting-as-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/rba-leaves-cash-rate-unchanged-at-4-35-in-august-monetary-policy-meeting-as-expected-435965\/","title":{"rendered":"RBA leaves cash rate unchanged at 4.35% in August monetary policy meeting, as expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Cash rate 4.35%<\/li>\n<li>Prior 4.35%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">While the impact of the Middle East conflict on inflation has so far been less than expected, headline inflation is still too high<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Short-term measures of inflation expectations have eased but remain higher than earlier in the year<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">There continue to be heightened uncertainties about the outlook for domestic economic activity and inflation<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">A period of prolonged uncertainty may also cause growth to be lower overseas and in Australia<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Focused on ensuring that high inflation does not become embedded<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Inflation not expected to return to around the midpoint of the target range until late 2027<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">There are also upside risks to this projection<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Will continue to do what is necessary to bring inflation back to target, including\u00a0increasing the cash rate target further if upside risks materialise<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Decision today was unanimous<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rba.gov.au\/media-releases\/2026\/mr-26-19.html\" rel=\"follow\">Full statement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coming into the decision, traders were pricing in ~97% odds of no change for the meeting. More to come..<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cash rate 4.35% Prior 4.35% While the impact of the Middle East conflict on inflation has so far been less than expected, headline inflation is still too high Short-term measures of inflation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}