Westpac hikes fixed rates on all interest-only loans

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This is going to hurt at the margin. Three days after CBA, WBC is hiking fixed rates 30bps on interest-only fixed loans for owner-occupiers and 10bps for specufestors.

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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.