Other highlights will be retail sales figures for March on Wednesday, covering a time of rising cost of living pressures, including a spike in petrol prices above $2 a litre. House price growth has been slowing after last year's surge with potential home buyers facing stretched affordability, rising fixed-rate mortgages and a tightening in lending criteriaīefore Tuesday's RBA board meeting, the weekly ANZ-Roy Morgan consumer confidence index is released, which will capture the response to the inflation figures and the prospect of rising interest rates.
