Statement on Monetary Policy February 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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• International Economic Developments
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• International and Foreign Exchange Markets
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• Box A: The Period of Low Volatility in Financial Markets
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• Domestic Economic Conditions
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• Box B: The Recent Economic Performance of the States
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• Box C: Spillovers from Public Investment
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• Domestic Financial Markets
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• Box D: Measures of Investor and Owner-occupier Housing Credit
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• Inflation
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• Economic Outlook
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• Copyright and Disclaimer Notices
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The material in this Statement on Monetary Policy was finalised on 8 February 2018.

Some graphs in this publication were generated using Mathematica.

The chapter previously called ‘Price and Wage Developments’ is now entitled ‘Inflation’.

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