Markets getting ahead of themselves on interest rate hikes

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19 Dec 2025

Financial markets have gone on a bit of a tear recently, shifting from one extreme to the other and now seeing interest rate hikes coming sooner and stronger than either the Reserve Bank’s or economists’ expectations.

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