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The Reserve Bank of Australia today lifted the cash rate target 0.25% to 2.6%, undercutting market predictions of a sharper 0.5% hike and signalling a slowdown of the central bank's inflation-busting strategy.

Profits, not wages, are the main driving force behind inflation, according to a new report that throws light on major companies posting big profits while passing on higher prices to customers.

An interest rate rise during the election campaign could have consequences as huge as our rampant real estate market.

Philip Lowe’s speech on inflation yesterday was drafted well ahead of Scott Morrison’s comments about how the Coalition would keep interest rates lower than Labor.