Statement on Monetary Policy August 2018

The Statement on Monetary Policy sets out the Bank's assessment of current economic conditions, both domestic and international, along with the outlook for Australian inflation and output growth. A number of boxes on topics of special interest are also published. The Statement is issued four times a year.

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• Overview
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• The International Environment
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• Box A: Financial Market Resilience of Emerging Asia
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• Box B: An Update on China's Steel Sector
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• Domestic Economic Conditions
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• Domestic Financial Conditions
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• Inflation
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• Economic Outlook
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• Box C: Outlook for Non-ferrous Metal Exports
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The material in this Statement on Monetary Policy was finalised on 9 August 2018.

Some graphs in this publication were generated using Mathematica.

ISSN 1448–5133 (Print)
ISSN 1448–5141 (Online)