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  • Fundamental long-term factors for Australia's economy remain strong, challenge is to capitalise on them
  • house price correction, slow rent growth, Giv't efforts to ease cost of living
  • low wages growth one of the factors contributing to weak inflation outcomes
  • US-China trade, technology dispute the most prominent global risk
  • risks to Global economy tlilted to the downside led by Geopolitical uncertainties
  • Seeking to understand the slowing in Australia's economy and the disparity between strong unemployment growth and weak output growth
  • Inflation to pick up, but remain below the 2-3% target range for some time to come
  • RBA says that if we need to ignore these shifts our exchange rate would appreciate as the Australian economy reaches a 'gentle turning point'

The AUD has risen on comments that the economy has reached a gentle turning point.