Zero progress on MP tightening in April

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APRA has released its April banking statistics and it’s a washout so far as macroprudential tightening is concerned. Of the big six banks only one slowed investor lending growth and it remains well above the 10%line anyway:

ANZ CBA MAC NAB SUN WBC
10.5 9.5 74.8 13.9 12.1 10.3

Here’s the chart:

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And including the Macquarie Bank mortgage free radical:

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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.