• RBA's Lowe says expect economic growth to pick up gradually, average around 3 pct or so over next few years

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4 May 2017

RBA's Lowe says expect economic growth to pick up gradually, average around 3 pct or so over next few years

  • Want to see continuation of positive employment trends

  • Higher housing supply, transport infrastructure to help balance supply-demand

  • Employment growth has been a bit stronger of late, forward looking indicators positive

  • We should not expect interest rates always to be this low

  • Over time we could expect interest rates to rise in Australia

  • Recent increase in household debt to income has made economy less resilient to future shocks

  • Concerned about impact of sharp house price correction on household spending, economy

  • Higher the indebtedness the greater is the sensitivity of spending to shocks to income

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