Who sees what for interest rates now?

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Courtesy of Bloomberg, new rate forecasts from the major prognosticators are now available out to Q4, 2014. The median is for 2.5% all the way through. The low call is 2%. The high forecast is 4%. Here are the major players charted:

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Personally, I think we’re a shot at 1.75% before this cycle is over.

About the author
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.