NAB scorches interest-only with double rate hike

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I did warn you about NAB:

National Australia Bank is slugging interest-only owner occupier and residential property investors up to 50 basis points, but has cut rates for some principal and interest buyers.

NAB’s one to five year fixed rates for owner occupier interest-only loans are rising from between 30 to 50 basis points, while the rate for two-year fixed rate investment principal and interest are being cut by about 30 basis points. It is increasing rates for 20 products and reducing rates for eight.

It’s the second major round of increases by NAB since mid-March and follows the other big three in raising rates for interest-only investors and cutting rates for principal and interest borrowers.

This must be hammering specufestor sentiment.

About the author
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.