Bendigo Bank: “Mortgage rates are going to break from the official cycle disruptively”

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Via Banking Day:

The RBA has come under heavy criticism this year from banks and other lenders for allowing the spread between the official cash rate and market rates to widen.

While leading economists such as Westpac’s Bill Evans are not expecting an official rate rise before the second half of next year, lenders are questioning the wisdom of keeping the cash rate on hold while real cost of money rises.

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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.