Bankers baffled by the little Aussie financial crisis

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Via the AFR:

Westpac head of interest rate strategy Damien McColough said there were several competing reasons as to what factors had forced up Australian dollar funding costs.

“In March the narrative was all about access to US funding, but in June that was not the case and it’s increasingly about domestic factors,” Mr McColough 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.