RBA credit aggregates accelerate

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The RBA has released its August lending data and the recent bottoming of aggregates is turning to a little acceleration with year on year growth rates up across the board. Total credit is up to 3.4% from 3.2% in July, owner occupiers and investors mortgages and business borrowing are all up 0.1% to 4.2%, 5.9% and 1.4% respectively, personal credit lifted 0.4%to 0.9%.

There’s a little life in the old girl yet:

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With deposit growth falling, if this goes on into the new year, we’ll be all outta money quick smart.

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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.