Terror strikes: “Eight years of rate hikes”

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Herald Sun terror that is:

The cost of borrowing money in offshore markets — a key source of funding for Australian banks — has been increasing steadily for more than six months.

“This is the beginning of a new phase of normalisation of interest rates — the new normal,” BIS Oxford Economics associate director Kim Hawtrey said.

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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.