IMF on Australia - Near term risks are more balanced

Omkar Godbole FXStreet Contributor

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) view of Australia economy is crossing the wires via Bloomberg and LiveSquawk-

Near-term risks are more balanced.
2018 GDP seen at 2.9 percent. 2019 GDP at 3.1 percent.
The jobless rate is seen at 5.3 percent this year and 5.2 percent in 2.19 and 5 percent in 2020.
The consumer price index (CPI) is seen at 2.1 percent in 2018 and 2.2 percent in 2019.

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Omkar Godbole, editor and analyst, joined FXStreet after four years as a research analyst at several Indian brokerage companies.

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