Bloxo pushes back rate hike again, again, again, again

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Via Forexlive:

HSBC wasn’t part of the latest Bloomberg survey here, but they did previously forecast the RBA to move at the end of this year to raise its cash rate. Now they join CBA and ANZ to have shifted their timing of the RBA’s rate hike call to next year.

On the move, HSBC cites “weak wage outcomes with a very patient rhetoric from the RBA and a bit more weakness in the housing market than expected” as reasons for the call.

This is Bloxo’s fourth capitulation from memory. I would like to bring you the note but, mysteriously, I have dropped off the HSBC mailing list!

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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.