Australian bank funding costs launch

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Everything is awesome today as CBA CDS launches to a new 2015 high at 91bps:

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Of course it’s still early days. Although net interest margins will begin to be squeezed over time funding costs do not become critical until they get above about 120bps which is where non-bank lenders become unecomomic. Banks are a little higher.

There’s no disputing that trend, though, and of course we know where it all leads, to a tightening in this:

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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.