Ignore Phil Lowe on interest rates

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From Peter Martin:

The head of the Reserve Bank has dashed hopes of a further cut in interest rates, pleading for people to “focus on other things other than quarter of a per cent moves in the cash rate”.

Appearing before a parliamentary inquiry in Sydney governor Philip Lowe said the Australian economy was set to rebound as the “headwind from falling commodity prices turned into a gentle tailwind”.

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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.