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‘Unpredictable': Range of potential market scenarios is ‘quite wide'

‘Unpredictable': Range of potential market scenarios is ‘quite wide'

News.com.au20-05-2025
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Michele Bullock says future financial markets are 'unpredictable' and the range of possible outcomes is 'quite wide'.
'We are on the alert for that – and we're paid to worry about that sort of thing,' Ms Bullock said.
'You rightly point out that the financial markets have recovered. I would say that we are still not sure that the financial markets will remain nice and steady.
'The key point about the situation we're in is it's not just uncertain, it's actually unpredictable … the range of outcomes here could be quite wide.'
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