Every excuse under the sun for bank funding spike

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Except the right one. BBSW is at new highs with the bank profits pincer tightening and the AFR is desperate for an excuse:

“There’s nothing to suggest that it’s sinister just yet, we expect these things to be high as we get to quarter-end as the historical pattern shows,” said Tamar Hamlyn, portfolio manager at fixed income boutique Ardea.

“There is a global dimension to this starting with the US,” said Nomura rates strategist Andrew Ticehurst, who observes that multinationals outside the US are holding fewer US dollars.

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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.