- The Board's decision to extend the bond purchases at $4 billion a week until at least February 2022 reflects the delay in the economic recovery and the increased uncertainty associated with the Delta outbreak.
- This setback to the economic expansion is expected to be only temporary. The Delta outbreak is expected to delay, but not derail, the recovery.
- The Board is committed to maintaining highly supportive monetary conditions to achieve a return to full employment in Australia and inflation consistent with the target. It will not increase the cash rate until actual inflation is sustainably within the 2 to 3 per cent target range.
- This bounce-back and it is likely to be slower than that earlier in the year.
Note, one of the major newswires reported the QE decision as a "hold", although the official RBA release states "purchase government securities at the rate of $4 billion a week and to continue the purchases at this rate until at least mid February 2022."
