{"id":378616,"date":"2010-03-02T01:27:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T06:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/australia-hikes-again-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-02T01:27:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T06:27:18","slug":"australia-hikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/378616","title":{"rendered":"Australia Hikes AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There it is. Australia hiked their key interest rate to 4%, continuing the nations monetary tightening cycle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b8cad067f8b9ae65a3d0a00-600-\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chart\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This puts Australia well ahead of most of the developed world. Unemployment is so low right now that the nation is actually experiencing worker shortages in some industries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b8cae4b7f8b9abb5afa0600\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chart\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is, while Australian GDP didn&#8217;t fall as much as that of the U.S. during the crisis, the nation&#8217;s most recent growth has actually been slower than the U.S. lately:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b8caed67f8b9a815d570100\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chart\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b8caf2f7f8b9a745baf0700\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chart\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Australian economy still has some soft spots, thus Australia is expected to tighten monetary policy slowly. The next hike could be in a few months.<\/p>\n<p>(Charts via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradingeconomics.com\/World-Economy\/Maps.aspx\">Trading Economics<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/australia-hikes-again-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/australia-rate-hike-2010-3\">All Eyes Turn To Australia Tonight!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/here-they-go-australia-set-to-resume-the-tightening-cycle-next-tuesday-2010-2\">Here They Go, Australia Set To Resume The Tightening Cycle Next Tuesday<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-tightening-cycle-is-about-to-being-again-and-it-will-start-in-australia-2010-2\">The Tightening Cycle Is About To Begin Again, And It Will Start In Australia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/_5Ui-fag-w8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There it is. Australia hiked their key interest rate to 4%, continuing the nations monetary tightening cycle. This puts Australia well ahead of most of the developed world. Unemployment is so low right now that the nation is actually experiencing worker shortages in some industries. The funny thing is, while Australian GDP didn&#8217;t fall as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}