SYDNEY: Australia’s central bank held its cash rate steady to confound calls for a cut and sending the local dollar sharply higher, though it did leave the door wide open for an easing at future policy meetings.
The currency jumped half a US cent after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said it was too early to follow February’s quarter-point cut to a record low of 2.25%.
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