ASX 200 Week Ahead: RBA Hawkish Hold Meets Fed Rate Cut as Australian Shares Head Into a High-Stakes Data Week (15–19 Dec 2025)
Updated: Sunday, 14 December 2025 Australia’s share market is heading into the second-last full trading week before Christmas with two forces pulling in opposite directions: a more hawkish Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) at home and a fresh US Federal Reserve rate cut offshore. The result is a market that finished last week stronger overall—but with sharp sector divergence that’s likely to remain the defining feature of the week ahead. TradingView+2ig.com+2 The S&P/ASX 200 ended Friday, 12 December, at 8,697.3, after a 105-point (+1.23%) surge on the day and a 0.7% weekly gain—its third straight weekly rise. TradingView+1 Heading into