{"id":438991,"date":"2026-09-29T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/rba-raises-cash-rate-by-25-bps-to-4-60-highest-since-2011-438991\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T04:30:09","slug":"rba-raises-cash-rate-by-25-bps-to-4-60-highest-since-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/rba-raises-cash-rate-by-25-bps-to-4-60-highest-since-2011-438991\/","title":{"rendered":"RBA raises cash rate by 25 bps to 4.60%, highest since 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Cash rate decision 4.60%<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/central-banks\/rba-leaves-cash-rate-unchanged-at-4-35-in-august-monetary-policy-meeting-as-expected\/\" rel=\"follow\">Prior decision 4.35%<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s policy decision was unanimous<\/li>\n<li>Since the previous meeting, some of the upside risks to inflation are materialising<\/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\">RBA\u00a0remains focused on ensuring that high inflation does not become embedded<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Inflation is still too high;\u00a0some of the upside risks flagged in August are materialising<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">A\u00a0further tightening in financial conditions is warranted to support a return of inflation to target in a reasonable period<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Will continue to do what is necessary to bring inflation sustainably back to target, including increasing the cash rate target further if needed<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Will be attentive to the data and the evolving assessment of the outlook and risks to guide its decisions<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rba.gov.au\/media-releases\/2026\/mr-26-27.html\" rel=\"follow\">Full statement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Coming into the decision, markets had fully priced in a 25 bps rate hike with roughly 43% odds of another move in November next. More to come..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cash rate decision 4.60% Prior decision 4.35% Today\u2019s policy decision was unanimous Since the previous meeting, some of the upside risks to inflation are materialising There continue to be heightened uncertainties about&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-438991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438991","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=438991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}