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Three of the world’s most influential energy authorities published their outlooks within days of each other in mid-August 2026. Read together, they show a market shaped more by geopolitics than by demand, though they diverge sharply on how quickly things could normalise.
Matteo Morosinotto
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August 14, 2026
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This afternoon, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) did what plenty of forecasters had pencilled in, but few quite believed would actually arrive. It lifted the official cash rate by another 25 basis points (bps) to 4.35 per cent.
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