Lowe to go at RBA

RBA Philip Lowe interest rates

14 July 2023
| By Laura Dew |
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It is understood Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor, Philip Lowe, will not be re-appointed to the governor position. 

According to the ABC, a decision is expected to be announced today by the Treasurer Jim Chalmers following a meeting with the Cabinet.

Lowe has been governor for seven years following Glenn Stevens and his term is due to end in September.

Possible candidates in the frame include deputy RBA governor Michelle Bullock, Finance Department Jenny Wilkinson and Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy. 

Former deputy governor, Guy Debelle, had previously been expected to be the natural successor to Lowe but he left the RBA to take up a chief financial officer role at Fortescue Metals Group which he then left in November 2022 for health reasons after suffering a bicycle accident.

Lowe has faced criticism this year over his insistence to raise interest rates with rates having lifted from 0.1 per cent to 4.1 per cent since last year. 

This is in an effort to control inflation which was 5.6 per cent in the year to May and rose as high as 7 per cent last year. The RBA’s target inflation range is 2-3 per cent.

More to come later today

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Submitted by Simon on Fri, 2023-07-14 11:12

Interesting to see that the media keep insisting and the Reserve Bank keep on advocating that adjusting interest rates has an effect on inflation and CPI! When will the BS stop and when will the media look at historical data and call the Reserve Bank out???

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