Consumer spending pressures interest rates (Sydney Morning Herald)

Story date: 2007-10-03 12:12:23
Added on: 2007-10-03 05:34:40

The Reserve Bank kept interest rates unchanged, but another rate rise is growing increasingly likely with no sign consumer spending has eased.


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