APRA the stupid gives specufestors a sniff

He’s baaack. From APRA monthly banking statistics in December (in billions), totals:

	ANZ	CBA	MQG	NAB	WBC	BOQ	BEN	SUN
Dec-16	81381	137224	8791	100065	142161	11380	11665	11906
Nov-16	80993	136064	8867	99539	141191	11420	11526	11813
Oct-16	80714	134986	8935	99167	140186	11484	11316	11769
Sep-16	80513	134011	8988	98590	139294	11562	11103	11794
Aug-16	80605	133134	9051	98221	138350	11645	11024	11839
Jul-16	80859	132274	9137	97829	137514	11773	10915	11878
Jun-16	81305	131298	9191	97544	136918	11901	10865	11886
May-16	81713	129801	9197	97450	136070	11978	11546	11685
Apr-16	82073	128671	9215	97045	135754	12029	11478	11445
Mar-16	82270	128065	9220	96825	135712	11981	11370	11322
Feb-16	82469	127835	9221	96531	135351	11919	11243	11332
Jan-16	82656	127872	9257	96114	135471	11680	11229	11414

Year on year growth for big eight:

	ANZ	CBA	MAC	NAB	SUN	WBC	BEN	SUN	Total
Dec-16	-1.7	7.2	-5.2	4.5	5.1	-0.8	3.6	3.8	4.0
Nov-16	-2.1	6.3	-4.8	4.5	4.3	1.1	2.2	1.9	3.4
Oct-16	-2.4	5.1	-3.4	5.1	3.9	2.8	0.2	0.6	3.0
Sep-16	-2.9	3.4	-3.0	4.9	-6.9	4.5	-1.4	-0.1	0.9
Aug-16	-3.4	1.8	-1.9	5.2	-8.6	5.3	-1.9	-0.1	-1.7
Jul-16	-3.7	1.4	-1.1	5.0	-5.1	-12.0	-2.3	-5.1	-3.0
Jun-16	-2.6	1.2	1.9	46.4	-4.1	-10.2	-2.4	-4.1	3.1
May-16	-0.9	1.5	4.5	48.2	-5.3	-9.8	3.6	-5.3	4.1
Apr-16	0.5	1.9	17.3	49.3	-0.6	-9.3	3.3	-6.9	5.0
Mar-16	1.8	2.4	19.9	50.7	-7.3	-8.8	-7.3	-7.3	5.7
Feb-16	2.9	3.0	31.2	51.9	-7.9	-8.3	-7.9	-7.9	6.5
Jan-16	3.9	3.5	36.5	52.5	-5.1	-7.7	-5.1	-5.1	7.2

Month on month growth:

	ANZ	CBA	MAC	NAB	SUN	WBC	BEN	SUN	Total
Dec-16	0.5	0.8	-0.9	0.5	0.8	0.7	1.2	0.8	6.3
Nov-16	0.3	0.8	-0.8	0.4	0.4	0.7	1.8	0.4	5.7
Oct-16	0.2	0.7	-0.6	0.6	-0.2	0.6	1.9	-0.2	5.4
Sep-16	-0.1	0.7	-0.7	0.4	0.7	0.7	0.7	-0.4	0.7
Aug-16	-0.3	0.6	-1.0	0.4	-0.3	0.6	1.0	-0.3	3.4
Jul-16	-0.6	0.7	-0.6	0.3	-0.1	0.4	0.5	-0.1	2.6
Jun-16	-0.5	1.2	-0.1	0.1	1.7	0.6	-6.3	1.7	3.0
May-16	-0.4	0.9	-0.2	0.4	2.1	0.2	0.6	2.1	3.5
Apr-16	-0.2	0.5	-0.1	0.2	1.1	0.0	0.9	1.1	1.9
Mar-16	-0.2	0.2	0.0	0.3	-0.1	0.3	1.1	-0.1	1.8
Feb-16	-0.2	0.0	-0.4	0.4	-0.7	-0.1	0.1	-0.7	0.4
Jan-16	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1	0.4	-0.5	0.1	-0.3	-0.5	0.8

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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.