BOQ takes 5bps

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Well, that didn’t take long. BOQ has cleverly slipped under the skirts of the announcement to declare that it will pass on only 20bps of the rate cut. From the AFR:

“Given the continuing pressure on the cost of funding a 20 basis point reduction is the best balance between our customers and shareholders. We are also conscious of pressure facing all of our customers, including those with home loans and those with deposits, and believe the 20 basis point cut also strikes a fair balance between the two.”

Only problem, right now at least, the costs of funding are as low as they have been in over a year:

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.