RBA's Debelle: Not convinced negative rates would work

The Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) Deputy Governor Guy Debelle was out on the wires Tuesday, stating lack of conviction in negative interest rate policy as a tool to boost inflation and employment. 

The central bank recently cut rates to a record low of 0.10% and has been buying bonds since the second quarter to contain the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. 

Key quotes

• Don't see much risk of inflation rising too high in the next three years. 
• There is lots of uncertainty on economy
• There is long way to get back to pre-pandemic levels

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