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Australian central bank whose research on cash usage, carrying behaviour, and electronic-payment reliability concerns is cited as context.
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US 10-year Treasury yields hit 5.34% on 1 October, their highest in 24 years, while oil traded back above $100 a barrel. Rates and oil both reversed within days, so teams planning Q4 headcount, infrastructure or fundraising should budget both as ranges.
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Australia's Reserve Bank raised its cash rate a quarter point to 4.60% on Sept. 29, its highest level in 15 years. It is tightening into a housing downturn because it believes higher fuel costs are now passing into the prices of other goods and services.
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Australia's central bank lifted its cash rate to a 15-year high of 4.60% on Sept 29, its fourth hike of 2026. The board says it is ready to go further, so teams on floating Australian rates should plan for one more step into early 2027.
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Michele Bullock told a Sydney audience that central banks expected AI to make economies more productive and have seen little sign of it so far, while the government's 60-year projection depends on productivity growth returning to 1.2% a year.
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The Bureau of Meteorology says models put the current event ahead of anything in 76 years of reliable records. The Department of Agriculture's forecaster has three states falling 16% to 44% next season while Victoria and South Australia rise.
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A planned change declined cards nationwide for hours on a Saturday afternoon. The failure mode operators should be rehearsing is their own change window, not somebody else's attack.
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