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SYDNEY—Australia’s central bank has delivered its first interest-rate increase since late 2023, citing a worsening inflation outlook and a broad upswing in the economy over recent quarters.
The figure, which is a closely watched footnote disclosure, was about nine times Oracle’s revenue for the previous four quarters, and included the $300 billion related to OpenAI.
A White House spokesman noted that manufacturing productivity ticked upward in recent quarters and that workers’ wage hikes outpaced inflation over the past year.
Analyst David L. Bailey tells clients in a note that he assumes a buyback of US$175 million in both of the third and fourth quarters, taking the fiscal 2026 total to US$675 million.
“In Wednesday’s refunding statement, we expect Treasury to reaffirm its guidance of maintaining nominal coupon sizes ‘for the next several quarters’ while continuing to signal future increases,” Deutsche Bank strategists say in a note.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.