The Reserve Bank today, Wednesday 14 September 2016, announced the schedule for the release in 2017 and 2018 of its quarterly Monetary Policy Statements (MPS), the interim Official Cash Rate (OCR) reviews, and the six-monthly Financial Stability Reports (FSR).
The Bank last year published release dates to the end of 2017, and these are confirmed.
In August 2016, the Bank announced that it would use the following rules for the release schedule:
· The Bank will publish the MPS on the second Thursday in February, May, August and November. Each MPS includes an OCR announcement.· There will be three intervening OCR reviews, to be released on the fourth Thursday of March, June, and September.· The FSR will be published on the last Wednesday in May and November.
Head of Communications Mike Hannah said the schedule ensures that the Bank captures the latest key economic data available for its policy decisions.
The Bank reserves the right to make changes to this schedule, if required, due to extraordinary circumstances. In such an event, the markets and the media would be given as much notice as possible.
Announcements are made at 9.00am on the day concerned and are posted to the Reserve Bank website shortly after. Media conferences are held at the release of MPSs at 10:00am and FSRs at 11:00am, and these are live-streamed on the Bank's website.
The 2017 and 2018 release dates are as follows:
Monetary Policy Statement / Official Cash Rate announcements
9 February 2017 OCR & MPS Media conference & webcast
23 March 2017 OCR
11 May 2017 OCR & MPS Media conference & webcast
22 June 2017 OCR
10 August 2017 OCR & MPS Media conference & webcast
28 September 2017 OCR
9 November 2017 OCR & MPS Media conference & webcast
8 February 2018 OCR & MPS Media conference & webcast
22 March 2018 OCR
10 May 2018 OCR & MPS Media conference & webcast
28 June 2018 OCR
9 August 2018 OCR & MPS Media conference & webcast
27 September 2018 OCR
8 November 2018 OCR & MPS Media conference & webcast
Financial Stability Report
31 May 2017 FSR: Media conference & webcast
29 November 2017 FSR: Media conference & webcast
30 May 2018 FSR: Media conference & webcast
28 November 2018 FSR: Media conference & webcast