RBA still has scope to cut rates; warns against debt-fuelled boom
Key to increasing economic growth above current 2.5% pace is investment by firms outside resource industry
Sydney
AUSTRALIA retains scope to lower interest rates further, the central bank's second in command said, while warning against spurring a debt-fuelled spending boom.
"There is a fairly fine line to tread" in balancing the need to encourage household spending and business investment while preventing imbalances emerging in the economy, deputy governor Philip Lowe said in Sydney Monday. Australia has been trying to engineer a transition from mining since late 2011 when investment and commodity prices peaked.
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