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The RBA Board left the cash rate unchanged at 4.35%, as expected. Disinflation on track but Board still vigilant to upside inflation risks and is not ruling anything in or out.
As expected, the RBA kept the cash rate on hold at 4.35% following its November meeting. The Board acknowledged that headline inflation has fallen substantially but emphasised that measures of underlying inflation were still too high. In addition, quarterly outcomes on trimmed mean inflation are declining only slowly. So while the disinflation remains on track and policy is restrictive, the Board does not yet have enough confidence in this to start contemplating a rate cut. The media release retained the language on remaining vigilant to upside inflation risks and not ruling anything in or out. Risks were characterised as balanced but, because underlying inflation is above the target, the RBA Board is more attentive to the upside risks.
Underlying inflation was characterised as being consistent with forecasts, even though trimmed forecasts edged down a little from the August round. The end-2026 forecast is now firmly at 2.5%, the midpoint of the band, rather than 2.6% as previously expected. Forecasts of Wage Price Index growth were also scaled back, and by a bit more than the reduction in the forecast profile for trimmed mean inflation. On the other hand, the RBA’s view of the labour market has shifted to be a little more bullish, partly because of their pessimism about productivity.
The headline inflation forecasts have been revised to reflect the impact of electricity rebates and cost of living measures. This adds some volatility to the profile, which is why the RBA is highlighting trimmed mean inflation as a guide to underlying momentum. The RBA’s inflation forecasts assume that the cost-of-living assistance expires as currently planned. Given ongoing cost of living pressures, though, a further extension of these measures or introduction of similar measures cannot be ruled out.
While there were some elements of the RBA’s analysis that seems a little hawkish compared with our own view of the data, we do not see anything in today’s decision or discussion that would change our view that the cash rate will start declining slowly from February, but no earlier than that. In the press conference, the Governor declined to give any guidance on the outlook for the cash rate for the first half of 2025. This contrasts with the language in August, where a near-term cut was ruled out. We suspect that the RBA believes that it will not start cutting until later in 2025, but this view could evolve if inflation continues to come in consistent with or below current forecasts.
Consumer spending has been weaker than the RBA expected and the pick-up in response to the Stage 3 tax cuts has also been smaller than expected. The RBA now expects real consumption to be flat in the September quarter.
In contrast, the RBA’s view of labour market developments has shifted in a more hawkish direction. The media release and SMP characterised the labour market as still being tighter than full employment. This is despite growth rates of wages and labour costs already easing, which ordinarily would imply that there is some labour market slack. A few indicators, including average hours worked and the NAB survey measure of labour availability, have stopped easing, and the RBA has taken some signal from this.
In the August SMP, the RBA revised its estimate of full employment down (in other words, revised up its estimate of the sustainable rate of unemployment). Although inflation has broadly tracked its forecasts from a year ago, the RBA reassessed its view of full employment following higher inflation outcomes than expected ‘more broadly over the past two years’. While this seems rather backward-looking, in its annual review of its forecasts, published each November in the SMP, the RBA highlighted that weaker GDP outcomes recently alongside inflation and unemployment outcomes that were broadly as expected implied that supply capacity was lower. The RBA now estimates the unemployment rate consistent with full employment (the NAIRU) as being centred on 4½%, a little higher than it thought a few years ago. While higher labour force participation implies that labour supply is higher than otherwise, the SMP attributed some of this to cyclical factors relating the cost-of-living pressures and the ready availability of jobs.
The forecast review also acknowledged a point highlighted in some of our past notes, that the softness in measured productivity partly reflects a reallocation of activity towards the (lower productivity) non-market sectors. However, the RBA also pointed to a range of industries seeing weaker than average growth in productivity over the past year, including some in the market sector. These issues have prompted internal RBA discussions about underlying trends in productivity globally. So far, though, the discussion has been mostly statistically focused rather than identifying underlying causes, though this work is planned for the future. Some of the messages from the RBA’s liaison, of firms focusing on productivity and cost containment, are relevant here.
The RBA has also developed a new focus on the fact that Australia’s labour market appears tighter than some peers. This seems less surprising when one considers that Australia was a bit later to see inflation pick up and peak, having been later to open up after the pandemic than a number of these peers. Recall also that holding onto more of the labour market gains was the RBA’s deliberate strategy and the reason why it chose the ‘not quite as high for a bit longer’ strategy in the first place – an objective that the Governor again highlighted in the media conference after the announcement.
That said, the risks highlighted in the Outlook section of the November SMP no longer include the risk highlighted in August that supply capacity could be even weaker than assumed, suggesting the staff are comfortable with their current estimates of supply capacity. Instead, a new risk around future weak labour productivity growth was added. The consumption risk remained two-sided but was broadened to be about private sector demand more broadly. Global risks were likewise assessed to be two-sided; one of these, the US elections, will become a known outcome this week, although the broader implications of the result will depend on how much of their agenda the successful candidate can get through Congress.
With an exceptionally close US election upon us, plus the outcome likely to deliver a binary impact on currency markets, the FX options market is trading at a respectful level of volatility. In absolute terms, USD/JPY trades on the highest one-week volatility in the G10 space near 19%. These are close to levels seen during the height of the carry trade unwind in early August this year. With the next highest one-week volatilities come the typical high-beta currencies of NOK, AUD, NZD and SEK.
However, looking at ratios of traded volatility to realised volatility it is EUR/USD, USD/CAD and AUD/USD which stand out. For example, EUR/USD one-week volatility trades at 2.2 times its realised volatility. We think this makes sense and reflects the view that a Trump 2.0 would not merely punish China with tariffs, but also pursue universal tariffs which would very much hit open economies like the eurozone and Canada. The Canadian dollar had quite a good Trump 1.0 since the NAFTA trade deal was renegotiated quickly. The market is more fearful of the USMCA trade deal this time around – as evidenced in USD/MXN one-week volatility trading at 45%!
Polls in the seven swing US states close around 03/0400 CET tomorrow morning and we would expect markets to be moving around that time. Given the run-up in the dollar in October, we think we need to see a Red Sweep for the dollar to push on much further. A Harris win would seem a benign outcome and prove a dollar negative – those three currencies: the euro, the Canadian and the Australian dollars could do well here. The more difficult outcome for the market would be Trump without the House of Representatives or a contested election. IMF analysis in its recent World Economic Outlook warned that the US economy could be 1% weaker than baseline in 2026 if Trump delivers on tariffs but could not offset it with tax cuts. For this reason, and given market positioning into the election, we think the dollar could come lower unless there is a Red Sweep.
Ahead of the election, today's US data calendar has ISM services for October. This is expected to soften a little. And were it not for the election, we believe this week's Fed meeting would also prove dollar negative too.
EUR/USD is just about holding onto gains made over the last few days. Remember these gains have been delivered on the back of, i) some ECB pushback against a 50bp cut in December, ii) Friday's soft US jobs report and iii) yesterday's poll result in Iowa which suggested Harris might be performing better than expected. As above, the FX options market is primed for a big move in EUR/USD. And assuming that a clear election result emerges this week, we are primed to deliver new multi-quarter EUR/USD forecasts – having kept a multi-quarter profile from the fourth quarter onwards flat at 1.10 from April this year.
The threat of Trump and protectionism has sharpened the senses in European political circles and may be hurrying German political leaders to compromise on the budget side. But for this week, expect the fall-out from US elections to dominate. Ultimately, a Trump win without the House could be the worst scenario for EUR/USD by late 2025, where global growth would be finding no insulation from US tax cuts and the ECB might be forced to cut rates deeper into accommodative territory.
It is after the European close tonight, but let's see whether the ECB's Isabel Schabel again pushes back against a 50bp ECB cut in December. Currently the market prices 29bp of cuts.
It is not a surprise to hear of some hedge funds buying AUD/USD call spreads structures in the FX options market. The Australian dollar could be the big winner should Harris keep Trump out of the White House. Under such a scenario, the China tariff threat would be reduced considerably. At the same time, Chinese asset markets are starting to perform a little better on the recent stimulus measures – as well as in anticipation of some further fiscal stimulus details emerging from China this week.
At the same time, the Reserve Bank of Australia seems in no mood to join its peers in easing policy. Last night's policy meeting led with a message that underlying inflation is too high, even though it was forecast marginally lower at 2.8% by the end of next year.
As such it would be no surprise to see AUD/USD deliver some substantial gains were Harris to win this week.
Inflation in Turkey surprised slightly to the upside yesterday (2.9% MoM vs 2.5% expected). Although the year-on-year reading continues to fall further, slower disinflation may again weigh on the Central Bank of Turkey's caution in the timing of the first rate cut. Our economists still expect a first cut in December but Friday's inflation report and the Governor's presentation could tell us more.
TRY remains unchanged and the US election doesn't seem to change the set trajectory either. Market pricing of rate cuts is gradually shifting from this year to next year. Although the market reacted little to the higher inflation number, we will likely see more repricing later. Despite further upside surprises in inflation and the postponement of the first rate cut, it is clear that we are approaching a period where rate cuts will be on the table. Although the US election should not affect the TRY market, we believe it is safer to be in the spot market for carry collection in FX, while forwards may prove more volatile in current conditions.
Elsewhere in the region today, the calendar is empty. The CEE market remains significantly volatile with yesterday's strong rally in PLN assets. Although FX across the region saw buyers yesterday morning, following the EUR/USD move higher, it closed almost unchanged at the end of the day. On the other hand, rates and bonds saw some rallies, especially in the PLN market, which after last week's sell-off may seem like the cheapest option in case of a Harris victory in the US election. Thus, today should be in a similar fashion as a last chance to adjust positions before the risk event.
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