Are banks slashing mortgage rates out of cycle?

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From the AFR:

The Commonwealth Bank has slashed its five-year fixed mortgage rate to a record low of 4.99 per cent, offering borrowers the chance to exploit historically low interest rates.

The country’s biggest lender said on Wednesday its five-year rate would fall 0.7 percentage points to 4.99 per cent, the lowest rate in the market. It is the first time the bank has cut its five-year fixed rate below 5 per cent.

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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.