Cash Rate Likely to Remain Unchanged: Reserve Bank

Cash Rate Likely to Remain Unchanged: Reserve Bank
A bike courier rides past the entrance to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) in Sydney's central business district on April 2, 2013. Greg Wood/AFP via Getty Images
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While Australia’s housing market boomed without constraint over the last few months, partly due to record low-interest rates, the cash rate is unlikely to change in Tuesday’s monthly monetary board meeting.

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) statistics for lending and credit show overall mortgages rose by 0.5 percent in April and 4.4 percent over the last 12 months.